[AusNOG] Telstra's Texan Teaser - Tin Foil Stetsun anyone?

[Alastair Waddell]

/for the record 

This is the same pong as the BT/Phorm 'experiments' of a few years ago right down to the "we didn't tell you because we're just testing / we were going to tell you later " bullcrap. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/oct/01/eu-online-privacy 

Phorm were determined to inflict Webwise on an unknowing public in a callous act of unadulterated greed that would have succeeded were it not for the global reaction that followed. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorm 

Regards, 

----- Original Message -----

> It's not clear:

> (a) Why this is any better as an explanation?
> (b) That this clarifies if this is legal - harvesting information
> from a telecommunications service AND passing that to a 3rd party
> offshore seems marginal at best. Certainly as some of these links
> are not ones that, say, are visible to a search engine or public,
> and thus aren't that anonymous.

> "However, Telstra has since clarified that the activity was conducted
> ahead of a launch of a voluntary web filtering offering for mobile
> users."

> Except that this isn't voluntary - this is something that has been
> turned on without warning, without the ability to opt out.

> MMC

> On 26/06/2012, at 2:00 PM, James Hutchinson wrote:

> > An update for those interested:
> 

> > http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/306441,telstra-tracks-users-to-build-web-filter.aspx
> 

> > James Hutchinson
> 
> > Journalist
> 
> > iTnews
> 

> > From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
> > [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Shaun Ewing
> 
> > Sent: Tuesday, 26 June 2012 9:54 AM
> 
> > To: Aaron Wigley
> 
> > Cc: ' ausnog at lists.ausnog.net '
> 
> > Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Telstra's Texan Teaser - Tin Foil Stetsun
> > anyone?
> 

> > On 26/06/2012, at 9:28 AM, Aaron Wigley wrote:
> 

> > As of 09:18 AEST, we are still seeing this duplicated clickstream
> > traffic
> 
> > from
> 

> > I've just done a co-ordinated test with Seamus Ryan against two
> > hosts
> > that we respectively control.
> 

> > If I hit both, there's nothing beyond my initial request.
> 

> > If Seamus hits both, the request is immediately followed up by a
> > host
> > in Rackspace.
> 

> > Could it be rolling out based on location? I'm currently in
> > Alexandria in Sydney.
> 
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