Australian provider Telstra scared users
For two weeks on the Australian computer forums there is a discussion of a strange phenomenon in the Next G network of the Telstra operator: rate at least this thread on 27 pages . It all started with the fact that one of their users Telstra went from the tablet to its own website, and then found in the logs not only their IP-address, but also some kind of “twin”, which went after 250 milliseconds from the American IP.
Other Telstra users who had their servers repeated the experiment - and found exactly the same. After each visit to the page in the logs marked IP-address from the same subnet.
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Unknown after 250 milliseconds:
It seems as though all the users of Telstra are under some kind of surveillance.
The discussion lasted more than a week. As a result, the most probable version was formed that the Telstra operator is conducting some kind of marketing research and studying the behavior of its users. The users themselves expressed extreme dissatisfaction with this fact: besides the fact that there is total surveillance, so also private information about the pages visited is transmitted abroad (in the USA), which contradicts, in particular, the Australian Privacy Act about the integrity of personal data.
Some users addressed with open letters to Telstra with a request to clarify the situation, but to no avail: the operator remained silent for more than a week.
Only on June 26 the mystery finally uncovered . Representatives of the Internet provider said that they were testing a web filter, which is set by the American company Netsweeper , and that is what the “suspicious” IP addresses belong to.
This filter will become a platform for a new paid service that Telstra will provide to its users: for $ 2.95 per month, they will be able to connect the Smart Control option and block access to certain URLs or categories of sites from all mobile devices linked to their account or from specific devices (for example, to prevent children from accessing porn sites). In general, nothing so terrible, but a very useful service. So if in Russia in the logs of sites you see such strange visits, then it will already be clear what it can be.
The only thing that remains incomprehensible is the situation with the transfer of the history of visited pages abroad, because this may indeed contradict the legislation on the protection of personal data.
Other Telstra users who had their servers repeated the experiment - and found exactly the same. After each visit to the page in the logs marked IP-address from the same subnet.
User:
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149.135.145.71 - - [25/Jun/2012:17:24:59 +0930] "GET /13uf2n232.html HTTP/1.1" 200 736 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9B206 Safari/7534.48.3" Unknown after 250 milliseconds:
50.57.104.33 - - [25/Jun/2012:17:25:00 +0930] "GET /13uf2n232.html HTTP/1.0" 200 736 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0" It seems as though all the users of Telstra are under some kind of surveillance.
The discussion lasted more than a week. As a result, the most probable version was formed that the Telstra operator is conducting some kind of marketing research and studying the behavior of its users. The users themselves expressed extreme dissatisfaction with this fact: besides the fact that there is total surveillance, so also private information about the pages visited is transmitted abroad (in the USA), which contradicts, in particular, the Australian Privacy Act about the integrity of personal data.
Some users addressed with open letters to Telstra with a request to clarify the situation, but to no avail: the operator remained silent for more than a week.
Only on June 26 the mystery finally uncovered . Representatives of the Internet provider said that they were testing a web filter, which is set by the American company Netsweeper , and that is what the “suspicious” IP addresses belong to.
This filter will become a platform for a new paid service that Telstra will provide to its users: for $ 2.95 per month, they will be able to connect the Smart Control option and block access to certain URLs or categories of sites from all mobile devices linked to their account or from specific devices (for example, to prevent children from accessing porn sites). In general, nothing so terrible, but a very useful service. So if in Russia in the logs of sites you see such strange visits, then it will already be clear what it can be.
The only thing that remains incomprehensible is the situation with the transfer of the history of visited pages abroad, because this may indeed contradict the legislation on the protection of personal data.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/146807/
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