EFF Call for sign-ons: ISPs, networking companies and engineers opposed to FCC privacy repeal

Wed Mar 29 02:25:54 UTC 2017

Thanks, I was a bit confused why you said it, which is apparently because I was confused. :-)

I agree we need to do a better job educating users why this is important.

And just so my opinion is clear, if there were a true market, I would not mind ISPs who did this (with proper notice). Unfortunately, over half of all households in the US have one or fewer choices for broadband providers. I am one of them. What do I do if my ISP wants to collect my data? VPN everything?

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TTFN,
patrick

> On Mar 28, 2017, at 10:18 PM, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
> 
> It was more a plea to educate the list on why this matters vs. doom and gloom with a little more gloom and a little less Carmack. Instead I got more of the sky is falling.
> 
> Note that I don't intend to ever do this at my ISP, nor my IX.
> 
> 
> 
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> From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick at ianai.net <mailto:patrick at ianai.net>>
> To: "NANOG list" <nanog at nanog.org <mailto:nanog at nanog.org>>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 9:12:15 PM
> Subject: Re: EFF Call for sign-ons: ISPs, networking companies and engineers opposed to FCC privacy repeal
> 
> Mike:
> 
> My guess is you do not.
> 
> Which is -precisely- why the users (proletariat?) need to find a way to stop you. Hence laws & regulations.
> 
> Later in this thread you said “we are done here”. Would that you were so lucky.
> 
> -- 
> TTFN,
> patrick
> 
> > On Mar 28, 2017, at 5:58 PM, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net <mailto:nanog at ics-il.net>> wrote:
> > 
> > Why am I supposed to care? 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- 
> > Mike Hammett 
> > Intelligent Computing Solutions 
> > 
> > Midwest Internet Exchange 
> > 
> > The Brothers WISP 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 
> > From: "Rich Kulawiec" <rsk at gsp.org <mailto:rsk at gsp.org>> 
> > To: nanog at nanog.org <mailto:nanog at nanog.org> 
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 4:45:25 PM 
> > Subject: Re: EFF Call for sign-ons: ISPs, networking companies and engineers opposed to FCC privacy repeal 
> > 
> > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 06:45:04PM +0000, Mel Beckman wrote: 
> >> The claim oft presented by people favoring this customer abuse is that 
> >> the sold data is anonymous. But it's been well-established that very 
> >> simple data aggregation techniques can develop signatures that reveal 
> >> the identity of people in anonymized data. 
> > 
> > This needs to be repeated loudly and often at every possible opportunity. 
> > I've spent much of the past decade studying this issue and the most succinct 
> > way I can put it is that however good you (generic "you") think 
> > de-anonymization techniques are, you're wrong: they're way better than that. 
> > Billions, and I am not exaggerating even a little bit, have been spent 
> > on this problem, and they've been spent by smart people with essentially 
> > unlimited computational resources. And whaddaya know, they've succeeded. 
> > 
> > So if someone presents you a data corpus and says "this data is anonymized", 
> > the default response should be to mock them, because there is a very high 
> > probability they're either (a) lying or (b) wrong. 
> > 
> > Incidentally, I'm also a signatory of the EFF document, since of course 
> > with nearly 40 years in the field I'm a mere clueless newbie and despite 
> > ripping them a new one about once every other month, I'm clearly a tool 
> > of Google. 
> > 
> > ---rsk 