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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 ... > > > > ----------------------------- > Jean-Michel Planche blog: > http://www.jmp.net > Chairman and co-founder Witbe web : > http://www.witbe.net > Follow me > http://www.twitter.com/jmplanche > ------------------------------------------- > 2.0 Monitoring : relevant End to End monitoring for critical app. and > carrier class services > > > > 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NANOG mailing list >> NANOG@nanog.org >> http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > NANOG@nanog.org > http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog > > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > NANOG@nanog.org > http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog
