Virgin is planning to use packet sniffing software in order to measure the amount of illegal file sharing on its network. The software is called "CView", and it will be used to monitor traffic from about 40 percent of Virgin customers in the UK, none of whom will be notified prior to the test. However, the ISP stresses it is only measuring the amount of illegal sharing on the network, and ...
Read full articleOriginally posted by scum101:Unfortunately people in the U.K either don't care or don't know about ow Virgin works. As long as they can access Fecesbook and do a bit of gaming then everything is hunky-dory.
Illegal wiretapping.. where is their warrant?
They already do a total 404 dns fail intercept to one of their error pages even though I use my OWN dns servers.
These people have been doing this for quite a while now.. because they know in some places they have a total monopoly.
They won't be laughing when all their customers vanish overnight.
Quote:is it about piracy or snooping, as the pirates are one step ahead as per usual?
Pirate Bay's VPN goes public: Ipredator
As governments around the world consider proposals to hand surveillance powers to the entertainment industry and twitchy cops, the Pirate Bay is striking back. Its new €5/month IPRedator service is an encrypted VPN that you can use to hide your traffic (whatever it may contain) from prying eyes. The name comes from Sweden's adoption of IPRED (the "IP Rights Enforcement Directive," a punishing piece of anti-Internet legislation). I've been looking for a reliable VPN to use on public hotspots -- this might just be it.
Originally posted by scum101:well when "Our" government strips away all our rights it isn't unexpected for private organisations to think they can get away with it as well
Illegal wiretapping.. where is their warrant?
Originally posted by scum101:Virgin is just another like many Nazi Company like Verizon....hope they chook soon on them own agenda.
Illegal wiretapping.. where is their warrant?
They already do a total 404 dns fail intercept to one of their error pages even though I use my OWN dns servers.
These people have been doing this for quite a while now.. because they know in some places they have a total monopoly.
They won't be laughing when all their customers vanish overnight.
Quote:Frankly, the vetting procedure for private firms is stricter then that used by the government...
i'm sure virgin would protect their customers details, but even the government cant keep our private info safe, so whats the chance of virgin employees selling our details or harvesting them to commit fraud themselves?
Quote:Originally posted by scum101:Not all of us are that pathetic... some (and I include myself in this) think that Facebook is more damaging then ANY amount of digital piracy. At least pirates have a focus in life (delivery of a service) whereas your average facebook/twitter/fucking-idiot-space user seems to think the internet revolves around their use of the toilet and an investigation into their piles...
Unfortunately people in the U.K either don't care or don't know about ow Virgin works. As long as they can access Fecesbook and do a bit of gaming then everything is hunky-dory.
I mean, seriously... twitter the *bleep* off the net and stop hogging bandwidth!
/unrant
Originally posted by borhan9:unfortunately as said earlier in this post people in the UK do not understand the implications & don't care, if the media reported the truth it would be a different story but.....
What a load of nonsense this is a cover up of course they are going to sue the info against u. The only thing Virgin has done by doing this is loosing customers current and future. It will become one of the ISP's to stay away from.
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