AT&T To Spy on Your Internet Traffic

PCWorld ^ | 6/13/07 | Erik Larkin

[ßuddaßudd]

I was doing stuff like that before 9-11, but that put a stop to it. I wanted to give the people at Carnivore and Eschelon something to do.
http://www.rense.com/general66/scgh.htm

[miliantnutcase]

Interesting those routers are attached to class A addresses. ATT must own a large block of them. I always assumed class A’s were reserved for government use.

[miliantnutcase]

I just did another trace route to freerepublic and it looks like ATT owns most of the fiber backbones in the country.

[joebuck]

"Just use an encrypted proxy server and they won’t have a clue."

Or easier yet just build encryption/decryption into the networking client used to trade the files. It would slow things down a bit at first but that would be solved within in few generations.

[bamahead]

ping

[Just another Joe]

Whoever’s assigned to monitor me will die of boredom.

Said she who was the creator of the "Salacious ping list".

LMAO ;^P

[steve86]

Anyone who pings or issues a trace route to nsa.gov goes immediately on the no-fly list and a bug will be placed in your trousers when you drop them off at the dry cleaner.

[Centurion2000]

Interesting those routers are attached to class A addresses. ATT must own a large block of them. I always assumed class A’s were reserved for government use.

Nope .... lot's of providers and large web address blocks went up for sale a long time ago.

[traviskicks]

"AT&T is getting together with Hollywood studios and recording companies to develop technology to snoop on your Internet traffic in search of pirated material.."





Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.

[dighton]

Whoever’s assigned to monitor me will die of boredom.

The Ralph Mellish Story

[KoRn]

I wonder if this spying will apply to only end users of AT&T networks, or all traffic that simply routes through AT&T backbones destined to end users on other networks.

[Political Junkie Too]

Whoever’s assigned to monitor me will die of boredom. “She’s on Free Republic . . . now she’s on eBay . . . now back to Free Republic . . . eBay again . . . she’s Googling something . . . now Free Republic . . . now that knitting site . . . can I swap with someone?”

I've been meaning to ask you, "what's up with that?" ;-)

-PJ

[nomorelurker]

Just like me except it’s a fishing site.

[anymouse]

Johnny, hearing all the sirens: It's the phone company. They know what I did here today.
Venus: What are you talking about?
Johnny: They're coming to get me, man!
Venus: That's paranoia, man!
Johnny: Wake up, sucker, this is the phone company we're talking about! They see everything, they know everything, they got their own covert police force! I'm probably wired for sound right now! I gotta get out of here!
Venus: Johnny!
Johnny: Don't use my name!!

Johnny: Don't you people get it? It's the phone cops!!
Andy: There is no such thing as phone cops!
Johnny: Oh sure. Cover for them.

Video: WKRP - An Explosive Affair - Part 6 of 6 (Phone Cops)

[NCjim]

Here's one list of Class A networks...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IP_address_blocks

[beckysueb]

That sounds like me except I make some stops at Pogo.

[MD_Willington_1976]

No idea.. I was simply posting how you could see if AT&T was in there...

[HAL9000]

MD - what can you tell from this?

Your connection is behind two routers with private addresses on the LAN (the IP addresses starting with 192.168.xxx.xxx, the ones with no DNS symbols on lines #1 and #2.) Your ISP is RoadRunner. You are probably near Dallas, TX.

Why do a couple of sites have no rDNS?

Private IP addresses usually do not have domain names, unless you are operating a DNS server on your LAN or specifying the names in a host file.

When posting a traceroute, it's usually a good idea to omit the first few lines in order to not reveal your IP address. In the case of your traceroute, I would have suggested omitting line #3.