Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System
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Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System
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Re: Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System
#2So essentially they're collecting net flow data on every citizen. It may be kind of fun to overload their storage by creating a ton of short connections, probably wouldn't be feasible.
Re: Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System
#3So essentially they're collecting net flow data on every citizen. It may be kind of fun to overload their storage by creating a ton of short connections, probably wouldn't be feasible.
Your the first comment and I had exactly the same idea. What do you want to bet we've all had the same thinking. As a community we sure like to bend things for sure.
Re: Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System
#4Is a datacentre considered an ISP in this respect? Between vpns and just remote desktoping into a VM, it seems trivial to circumvent to real criminals while being a privacy nightmare to the rest of the population. There is a probability 1.000 that this data will be abused.
Re: Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System
#5So essentially they're collecting net flow data on every citizen. It may be kind of fun to overload their storage by creating a ton of short connections, probably wouldn't be feasible.
I mean if they could get the act to pass I am sure they get storage funding too.
Re: Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System
#6Why didn't they just do what the US Gov did? Snoop but not tell anyone. Certainly would have saved them some grief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...
Re: Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System
#7So essentially they're collecting net flow data on every citizen. It may be kind of fun to overload their storage by creating a ton of short connections, probably wouldn't be feasible.
I mean if they could get the act to pass I am sure they get storage funding too.
So what you're saying is if some people banded together, they could manipulate the storage tech market with the force of a nation state behind them?
Re: Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System
#8i'm not as concerned as i might be. My rather meager understanding, which may be entirely baseless, is, that unlike the NSA which is obsessive about collecting every single scrap of data (and many large chunks), the UK intelligence services are rather more discerning. Again, i would be happy for someone to correct me, that's just the general impression i get.
Re: Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System
#9Snooping? Now doesn't that reek of newspeak? If anyone of us did that to someone else it would (at very the least) be stalking.
When you track and log everything - for up to a year - that's not snooping.
That's surveillance.
Using candy-coated language for such things is as (almost as) harmful as the acts themselves.
Re: Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System
#10So essentially they're collecting net flow data on every citizen. It may be kind of fun to overload their storage by creating a ton of short connections, probably wouldn't be feasible.
Rest sure things like masscan and file sharing will be singled out and excluded from long term storage.
If I recall correctly there is a process called massive volume reduction by which you filter out “uninteresting stuff”.
It’s not a bad idea, but you’ll need something more sophisticated.