Re: Confidentiality when your computer is being repaired
- From: Claire Rand <claire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:13:45 +0000
MM wrote:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:07:31 +0000, Claire Rand
<claire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
and frankly if you are doing anything illegal your ISP will be more of a source of investigation than PCMuppets ever will.
How? ISPs can ONLY record which web sites a particular IP address has
visited
and if the website had iffy stuff on it this may be all they need to start an investigation via the plod.
, not what is on them. Does an ISP:
1. Know the contents of your emails?
you think they are stored encrypted on the servers? I dare say once you download them they delete them. because they have no reason not to. oh unless they want to use the contents for advert profiling etc.
2. Know what you have downloaded - including streams from the BBC or
Sky, mapping data from Microsoft Earth, online games?
in theory yes, in practice they won't store a copy though, but they could if they had a reason to
3. Know what you have uploaded, e.g. to online insurance companies,
Amazon, etc?
via a secure site they will have the encrypted data stream, nothing more. but they will know how long it is, and where you sent it. for unsecure sites they could log the lot if they wanted to
4. Know actually ANYthing salient about your internet activity, apart
from the actual number of bytes transferred? They know that because
they base their charging on it.
um.. have you ever *looked* at a log file? they will see each and every page request, the specific files requested, when etc. note they won't store the data, just the names. again unless they have a reason to store it.
If anything, it's Google you should be more concerned about. Google
retains every search term for up to two years.
MM
this however is true, but again they only have your home IP address to go on, unless you let them save a cookie this could change every time you connect.
your ISP have the ability to store *every byte* sent either way, it all goes via their equipment.
they won't since the storage space costs money, but if the website URL you visit raises concerns to what is presumably automatic scanning software. or the plod ask them to they *can* store the lot.
unless you give them a reason they won't be bothered though.
.
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