h0mersimps0n
07-24-02, 09:51 PM
my friend and I got a call today from our local ISP for our cable modem service saying if we don't stop downloading "certain" material that they would cancel our accounts.
after some discussion with my other friends and techno-nerds we decided that probably my ISP has a gnutella detecting software on their gateway machines. Even still, if they were sniffing my packets and decoding them to find out exactly what I was searching for/downloading they would be going to great lengths to get this info.
My personal feeling is that we got pegged for high (super high) bandwidth usage (also against terms of agreement) they saw gnutella being used and assumed it wasn't legal activity. *AHEM* did I say that?
ANYWAY, aside from a SSL tunnel to a secure proxy server what methods/software/anything do I have as an option to keep my ISP from spying on my packets and yelling at me for dling "certain" matieral...
Ahhh sorry, looks like I've awoken the "PRIVACY MONSTER" yet again...
WHERE'S PRIVACY OUT HERE!!!!!! THIS IS REDICULOUS!
after some discussion with my other friends and techno-nerds we decided that probably my ISP has a gnutella detecting software on their gateway machines. Even still, if they were sniffing my packets and decoding them to find out exactly what I was searching for/downloading they would be going to great lengths to get this info.
My personal feeling is that we got pegged for high (super high) bandwidth usage (also against terms of agreement) they saw gnutella being used and assumed it wasn't legal activity. *AHEM* did I say that?
ANYWAY, aside from a SSL tunnel to a secure proxy server what methods/software/anything do I have as an option to keep my ISP from spying on my packets and yelling at me for dling "certain" matieral...
Ahhh sorry, looks like I've awoken the "PRIVACY MONSTER" yet again...
WHERE'S PRIVACY OUT HERE!!!!!! THIS IS REDICULOUS!