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Bill would require ISPs to track users
Robert Lemos, 2007-02-19
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Bill would require ISPs to track users 2007-02-20
Anonymous (1 replies)
TOR Usage Spikes; Tonight on News 11 :^)...

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Re: Bill would require ISPs to track users 2007-02-22
Anonymous? (2 replies)
Tor is very nice but AFAIK it encrypts the traffic from their first router to the next and this means that traffic leaving your machine will first reach the ISP router and then be forwarded to the next router till it reaches the first onion router.So the ISP will still be able to sniff/monitor your...

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Re: Re: Bill would require ISPs to track users 2007-02-23
Anonymous
Actualy when traffic is encrypted, it is encrypted on the source and decrypted on the target system. Therefore, if you are using tor, the traffice outgoing is encrypted on your box and decrypted on the tor end and vise versa.

That doesn't stop them from seeing that you are connecting to the tor n...

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Re: Re: Bill would require ISPs to track users 2007-02-24
Anonymous
Please read the Tor documentation (http://tor.eff.org/overview.html.en). The data is encrypted from the Tor enabled client all the way to the exit onion router......

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Bill would require ISPs to track users 2007-02-20
Anonymous
Yet again, another place for my personal information to set waiting for someone to steal. Yeah, that's exactly what I want to see happen. Although, I do like the idea of registered sex offenders having to submit their email addresses, even though they can always create one some other place. It's st...

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Bill would require ISPs to track users 2007-02-22
Anonymous
Are we living in the former Soviet Union? What the heck??? When will we take responsibility for our own actions instead of asking someone else to do it for us?...

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Bill would require ISPs to track users 2007-02-22
Anonymous
what about "IP actions" taken from hot-spots or e-caffees ?

The owners will have to register users ?...

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Bill would require ISPs to track users 2007-02-22
Anonymous
Where is Mark Rasch? Is he reading this news? Waiting for another wonderful article on this aspect :-)...

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Bill would require ISPs to track users 2007-02-22
Anonymous
Well this would be the perfect way to catch incompetent criminals. Won't inconvenience a smart one even a small bit, but boy they sure will catch those pesky stupid criminals. I fail to see how this initiative will in any way keep us safer than we were before....

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Bill would require ISPs to track users 2007-02-26
Anonymous (1 replies)
Wait a minute, isn't this already SOP for an ISP? Presumably, name/address are kept for billing purposes. DHCP/BootP/Radius etc logs are kept for troubleshooting, no? So what does this bill effectively change? The retention period for such data?

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Re: Bill would require ISPs to track users 2007-02-27
Anonymous
Ya, but, we truncate our accounting tables after

the data has been imported for billing, and who

is charging dsl by the megabyte, or by the minute...

to actually keep any of this data for longer than

6 months would be a big burden on any mid size to small ISP

Imagine multiple DS3 web traff...

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