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Originally Posted by resetreset
It just struck me on a post over here where someone was discussing network management tools that my ISP has access to ALL of my net activity - which sites i go to, what i post, etc etc.
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I think you misunderstand it a bit.
Your ISP can track which IPs you connect.
Tracking what your post would require analysing traffic on the fly (installing keylogger into (windows) machine is much easier). Just storing data all users have posted will take too much space. Or if you are using ISP's proxy it is possible to retrieve what exactly you've downloaded (during last several days) through that proxy. Tracking proxy requests is more realistic. It is possible that ISP stores statistics of number of connections or volume of downloaded/uploaded information for some specific IP range. ISP probably could log all connections (which IP connected to which IP and when), but this doesn't mean your ISP is actually doing that. Anyway, I don't think your ISP is crazy enough to store copy of all data posted by all users somewhere.
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Originally Posted by resetreset
I have a suggestion - can we encrypt ALL web sessions that happen over the Internet?
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Read about Tor and Privoxy.
The data also is encrypted when connecting through https, I think.
Anyway it is possible to implement this (using public/private encryption keys). Still, even with encryption it'll be possible to track to which sites you connect (if you don't use proxy, etc).
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Originally Posted by resetreset
This would put tremendous load on the servers I guess, but todays computers are fast and cheap
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Maybe computers are cheap, but I don't think that servers are cheap too.