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Virtually all ISPs collect and sell this data.
by toper-centage 6y ago
Virtually all ISPs collect and sell this data.
- tobyhinloopen 6y ago[citation needed]
- krageon 6y agoThey use network traffic information to figure out who needs to be peered with. This is like asking citation for someone that says gas-burning cars need gas stops to refuel. It's just not reasonable.
- lxgr 6y agoThese logs seem to indicate some level of deep packet inspection. This is way beyond what's required for network management: IP/network level statistics are more than enough for that. In this case, it's probably used for these "data bundles" the author mentions.
- Ekaros 6y agoThese sort of data bundles can't work without this type of logging. Thankfully here we don't have that. And of course ISPs should track what ASNs they communicate with, but that is on general level, not per user...