Is you ISP a Big Brother that's watching you?

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ISPs are aware of the bandwidth you consume and can give you a detailed account of your data usage.

Can they also tell you which sites you have been searching? Do they keep track of the illegal MP3s, software, porn and terrorist activities people are up to? Is it legal?

It may be useful to track down an errant employee or a naughty child, but it is invasion of privacy to the average consumer.

Can anyone shed light on this?
 
That kinda info is probably only accessable via a court order.

Judges can probably only give the go-ahead to get that stuff.

Just my guess.
 
^^^^

what he said

they need an extremely good reason to listen in and intercepts your communications.

If they suspect you're part of a cartel defrauding SARS of money (just an example) they can obtain a court order and start sniffing.

Otherwise the evidence obtained would be illegal and won't be admissible in court.
 
though that doesnt stop bored ISP staff from watching your logs for their own entertainment ;P
 
Use PGP or third party proxies with encryption software (free and pay)
which will prevent absolutely everyone from sniffing any of your stuff. Although you should not have anything to hide. :)
 
??? i posted the second post to this thread about 10 minutes after it was started + it shows that i am subscribed

where is the post?
 
Everything needs to be recorded, I think that what was Mxits biggest problem but now even they can trace ip's of handsets that are chatting.

It security crap. But not available without legal docs.
 
The_Librarian said:
In general, people using PGP have something to hide... ;) :p :D
Click to expand...

The same as people who have locks on doors, burglar bars, safes, alarm systems, guard dogs, guns etc.... which means they're all criminals too.
I once used PGP to send credit card and ID scans to an online business by
email. Fax did not work out well and PGP did the trick, used the CC number
as the passkey too. There are many legitimate uses for encryption software.
 
I just noticed some SA goverment blocks on Peerguardian (a program used by p2p'ers to protect privacy by blocking specific IP addresses) on the port I use on uTorrent...Heres a log in the format Time; Blocklist entry name; Source IP; Destination IP:port; protocol; action taken

14:36 North-West Government, South Africa;196.29.40.33:5439;xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxx;TCP;Blocked
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15:08 North-West Government, South Africa;196.29.40.33:29555;xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxx;TCP;Blocked

(my info has been x'ed for privacy reasons :P)
The source's ports changed after every 3 or 4 blocks but the IP remained the same...

I only received the blocks after I closed uTorrent...telling me that somebody relayed the info about my activity on uTorrent to SA gov causing it to be delayed...
Is big brother watching us? My privacy feels violated, jsbtw. Paranoia? I don't think so. Something fishy is going on...
 
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