ISPs and Your Internet Security… Oops
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Comcast has announced its new surveillance policy. Their storage practices regarding customer information closely follows the letter of the law. Anything you do online can be tracked by your internet provider, as mandated by law enforcement officials.
The Comcast Cable Law Enforcement Handbook outlines all aspects of what information is collected, stored, how long it is stored, and under what circumstances that information is released. All of Comcast’s policies seem to follow the letter of the law, and seem to weigh customer privacy with law enforcement’s requests. This is in apparent contrast to AT&T and a number of other telecommunication companies, which have been only too happy to give over subscriber records. According to the handbook, Comcast keeps logs for up to 180 days on IP address allocation, and they do not keep all of your e-mails forever (45 days at most). VoIP phone records are stored for 2 years, and cable records can only be retrieved upon a court order.
Let me repeat, this is in contrast to AT&T and other companies’ policies regarding information sharing. Comcast has actually stepped up to the plate, and stated outright that they will not release this information without proper court procedure being followed. Several telecommunications companies don’t follow this, and tend to just hand over customer information willy-nilly.
If you don’t want them collecting and storing your information, be careful what you do online. Don’t do anything illegal, and you’ll be fine.
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33 Comments
Windows Vista Torrent
October 18th, 2007
at 12:18am
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no12354
October 17th, 2007
at 9:50am
very sweet vid.
AlucardZero
October 17th, 2007
at 9:52am
That dude has a horrible microphone….
esetnod32
October 17th, 2007
at 9:52am
:(((((((((
DMXell
October 17th, 2007
at 10:16am
My problem isn’t entirely the fact that, yes, our privacy has gone to hell over the internet. It’s the fact that you may goto a web site and then all of a sudden something illegal is posted (bomb threats for example) and now you’re on record for having viewed it. Now you may not support it, but with the law as it is they can make you seemingly be a person that was on the website for solely that.
XiledSoldier
October 17th, 2007
at 11:12am
They are not throttling Bit Torrent. And they are keeping that information but there is no personally identifiable information stored with it.
sirfatalx
October 17th, 2007
at 11:13am
I thought Comcast was Comcastic?
nickjuly004
October 17th, 2007
at 1:56pm
What about Road Runner?
UncleJohn97420
October 17th, 2007
at 2:16pm
No, just had it placed wrong thats all. Normally its further back. Its highly sensitive and if he places it to close to the audio source then his stereo recording, plus the microphone recording overlap and it causes reverb, or what you preseve as distortion.
owen0334
October 17th, 2007
at 2:49pm
If the pin number is contained in the magnetic stripe on a Visa card, what happens when you change your pin number?
no12354
October 17th, 2007
at 4:50pm
very sweet vid.
AlucardZero
October 17th, 2007
at 4:52pm
That dude has a horrible microphone….
esetnod32
October 17th, 2007
at 4:52pm
:(((((((((
DMXell
October 17th, 2007
at 5:16pm
My problem isn’t entirely the fact that, yes, our privacy has gone to hell over the internet. It’s the fact that you may goto a web site and then all of a sudden something illegal is posted (bomb threats for example) and now you’re on record for having viewed it. Now you may not support it, but with the law as it is they can make you seemingly be a person that was on the website for solely that.
XiledSoldier
October 17th, 2007
at 6:12pm
They are not throttling Bit Torrent. And they are keeping that information but there is no personally identifiable information stored with it.
sirfatalx
October 17th, 2007
at 6:13pm
I thought Comcast was Comcastic?
nickjuly004
October 17th, 2007
at 8:56pm
What about Road Runner?
UncleJohn97420
October 17th, 2007
at 9:16pm
No, just had it placed wrong thats all. Normally its further back. Its highly sensitive and if he places it to close to the audio source then his stereo recording, plus the microphone recording overlap and it causes reverb, or what you preseve as distortion.
owen0334
October 17th, 2007
at 9:49pm
If the pin number is contained in the magnetic stripe on a Visa card, what happens when you change your pin number?
MorkBorg
October 17th, 2007
at 10:10pm
If you’re interested in learning about Canada’s alrgest threat to internet freedoms, please visit
RichardWarman . com
He’s an internet censor and lawyer who has worked for zionist special interest groups like the Canadian Jewish Congress.
faisalm1991
October 18th, 2007
at 9:51am
lol yeah looks like its not comcastic anymore.
faisalm1991
October 18th, 2007
at 4:51pm
lol yeah looks like its not comcastic anymore.
DrZarkloff
October 19th, 2007
at 3:46am
Kind of reminds me of how I’m making air conditioning tutorials in the nude.
NikolaAU
October 20th, 2007
at 8:38pm
American Internet, will be like Iran’s and China’s Internet.
NikolaAU
October 21st, 2007
at 3:38am
American Internet, will be like Iran’s and China’s Internet.
I-user
October 22nd, 2007
at 4:22pm
I’ve always thought that, unless it’s encrypted (through a reliable means), everything you sent out over the internet was free reign, to an extent!
I-user
October 22nd, 2007
at 4:32pm
BTW, what about that recent news release that Comcast was making it’s own ‘honeypots’ to catch the P2P file sharing? How does that fit into the picture?!?
http://www.siliconvalley.com/personaltech/ci_7225556
(Note:News links may or may not last for a long period of time, do a search with Comcast + file sharing for best results)
bishopkitch
October 30th, 2007
at 3:45am
bottom line is big bro is always around – ha and so is my gun
bishopkitch
October 30th, 2007
at 10:45am
bottom line is big bro is always around – ha and so is my gun
sonnyk88
November 9th, 2007
at 2:49am
Encrypt your data, they can store what ever they want.
DSJeffers
November 12th, 2007
at 5:20pm
This is awesome…
00linuxisking00
February 9th, 2008
at 4:11pm
crapcastic lol not kidding!
ltshinta
April 5th, 2008
at 2:52am
Someone said pin is on a CC strip…….Total BS. its not located on any of the three rails. If you are going to claim soemthing they have to sight the information