I've found that using SSL for all my SMTP and IMAP transactions and not entering personally identifying information into non-SSL web pages greatly reduces the amount of harvesting results I see. As to Charter, I opt out by simply not purchasing anything from them. It seems to work far better than bothering with their silly cookie process. Owen On May 15, 2008, at 5:31 AM, Blake Pfankuch wrote:
I noticed this as well with a windows mobile device and activesync over the ail. Enforcing SSL communication seems to have fixed it, as I no longer get these after doing that. Of course this assumes that your mail server does not need plain text authentication. I noticed this a lot when I was flying back and forth from Houston and DFW out of Denver. Never identified the culprit of who was harvesting but....
-----Original Message----- From: Jean-Michel Planche [mailto:jmp@witbe.net] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:47 PM To: Jake Matthews Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic foradvertising?
In same spirit, something worst I think ... If you are in some airport with a GSM/Wifi phone, you are going to receive a mail, from local Wifi provider to explain you how to reach his (local wifi) network. Tested in Roissy / France, with iPhone. iPhone will switch from edge to wifi connection. I think that some application try to reach their server (like mail) and local provider sniff differents things (user name / mail sure but what about passwd ??) to send you back an email. Interesting ...
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Le 14 mai 08 à 22:31, Jake Matthews a écrit :
Apparently Charter is going to packetsniff its users and use that for commercial purposes.
Looks like the only way to somewhat opt out is by getting a cookie set at the below link - which is not only a dumb idea, but still - not even https. http://connect.charter.com/cas/portal/settings/privacyoptout.aspx
Anyones thoughts on this?
-j
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