Re: [tor-talk] Comcast looking for Tor traffic, contacting customers to threaten termination of service.

[ITechGeek <itg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would just like to chime in as a Comcast customer, tonight was the first
time I've tried hopping on tor browser since this rumor surfaced and
traditionally when I launch the tor browser I see tor connect and I'm on.

Tonight it took a couple minutes before I was able to connect (I was able
to search for this thread, catch up on every message since the 14th, and
read Comcast's notice and the comments before tor was connected-Not sure if
tor has ever taken that long to connect).

This could just be something going on tonight or Comcast could be doing
traffic shaping and this would be another Comcast will deny all
interference with traffic until someone proves otherwise.

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On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:36 AM, Andreas Krey <a.krey@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:41:13 +0000, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
> ...
> > If Comcast or any ISP / mobile provider don't monitor their customers'
> > activities, how are they able to regularly SELL such data to LEAs?
>
> What they 'sell' (and I'm rather confident they'd rather not do
> this particular 'business') is giving the entire datastream of
> specific customers to the LEA in question. This does not imply
> or require that Comcast itself has the means to analyze the
> datastream, nor the capability to do that on *all* customer.
> And analyzing would be necessary to single out tor users;
> as would they need a business case as to why it is even
> useful to single out tor users as opposed to, say, engaging
> with Netflix.
>
> Andreas
>
> --
> "Totally trivial. Famous last words."
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
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