If you've got charter, you better stop going to your loli porn sites

[mojovonio]

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/charter-will-monitor-customers-web-surfing-to-target-ads/index.html?ref=technology

Charter Communications, the fourth-largest cable system in the United States, has started telling its high-speed Internet customers that it is going to keep track of every site they visit on the Web.

[Eric P]

what the hell?

i would think they do that already to some capacity

[Eric P]

i have comcast and i know they're total bastards

when i worked for an isp we didn't really care what people did with their connection unless movie studios would bitch at us.

[fistfulofmetal]

I don't even know what Charter is!

[Eric P]

i have comcast and i know they're total bastards

when i worked for an isp we didn't really care what people did with their connection unless movie studios would bitch at us.

I figure the man power required to monitor the internet activity of your subscribers makes this statement more of a scare tactic than anything.

well really you could just run it through filters with predetermined names of bad sites.

so people going to obvious sites like www.fistfuckbabies.com or something more famous would be in more danger than someone going to a site with a more subtle name and i'm certain that they'd probably only look at people who had bizarre traffic patterns (a high out can indicate a "zombie" machine, a high in can indicate piracy) then pull that user's records and run them through the filter

[MrAngryFace]

In terms of privacy I think Verizon currently leads the way, but the very good question remains, why worry? I suppose its just the principle of the thing. If we dont care about little stuff like this, they'll just pin the public down and eventually we won't have any privacy in any aspect of life.

*alarmist rant end*

[Tauntaun]

In terms of privacy I think Verizon currently leads the way, but the very good question remains, why worry? I suppose its just the principle of the thing. If we dont care about little stuff like this, they'll just pin the public down and eventually we won't have any privacy in any aspect of life.

*alarmist rant end*

RAISE THE ALARM NUKKA!  You're like the modern day e-Paul Revere. 

[Eric P]

i totally understand but for more pragmatic reasons, i think that this is just to scare people into compliance than to actually do anything.  though who knows.  maybe someone has made it cheap in manpower and cheap in processing to make this a genuine concern

[MrAngryFace]

I really dont think its anything as malicious as that. I think that its primary use will be for precision marketing. Still, who's to say everyone else isnt doing it already and these people are just the ones telling people they are because they want to avoid legal issues others will face when word gets out?

[Eric P]

I really dont think its anything as malicious as that. I think that its primary use will be for precision marketing. Still, who's to say everyone else isnt doing it already and these people are just the ones telling people they are because they want to avoid legal issues others will face when word gets out?

i just assume people are

[MrAngryFace]

thats really the best policy, but we should still be worried about the ENDORSEMENT of this kind of stuff, because only then can it get really invasive.

[lordmaji]

I'm horny.