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| Authored by: stegu on Sunday, October 21 2012 @ 06:11 AM EDT |
In my case, I don't have any alternatives.
My landlord provides an IP cable attached to a
fibre in the basement, said fibre being firmly
connected to one particular ISP by a deal outside
of my control. If I want to use something else
for my Internet connection than this default,
I have to use a mobile dial-up at great expense
and slow speed. That's not really an option.
My phone line is also fed from IP and that
fiber connection, so no DSL for me. In fact,
I live in a house where cable TV, phone and
Internet all come from the same provider, with
no way for me as an individual to pick a
different option.
I have had no real reasons to complain yet,
but I am firmly locked down to a single ISP,
and the same goes for a lot of people living
in rented apartments in Sweden. The system of
letting your landlord negotiate the ISP deal for
you and being forced to accept whatever is
provided is becoming more common.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 12:43 PM EDT |
There are ways to defeat packet sniffing with a host of free
and pay for services. But in reality no ISP should ever be
allowed to packet sniff your traffic. It's as good as Wire
Tapping your phone. If you use VOIP Services like Vonage,
they got into some trouble for packet sniffing calls. That's
just creepy!
All cable companies periodically run packet sniffing it the
only way they can determine what you're actually
downloading. But it does violate rights of privacy and using
VPN's helps give you greater privacy by
encrypting/decrypting all your data coming.
I've used Secure Tunneling Services and that's probably our
best bet. They're not too expensive and the best ones are
very fast w/ servers offshore as well as here. Even ISP's
have no way to know what your traffic is. This is what many
companies use to keep private along with VPN! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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