ISP’s spy on internetters
Sunday, April 6th, 2008More and more stories appear in which ISP’s (internet service providers) spy on their customers. In the Washington Post is an article about an ISP that uses “deep packet inspection”. Based on the protocol of the package it extracts the payload of the data. That way the ISP can extract all communication of the customer. From incoming and outgoing email, visited webpages to even telnet sessions. Relevant data is sold to advertisement companies who are interested in the webpages you visit etc. The ISPs claim that no personal data is revealed. In the ISPs we trust.