[BNM] how do we mitigate ISP's spying on us?

[AndrewGill73@gmail.com]

The ISP's have to record the address of every URL (not the content). I
imagine this is a huge amount of diskspace.

Just an idea...

Build a screen saver that "fights back" making thousands of URL requests per
minute. If enough people install the screen saver then an ISP's won't
realistically be able to store all the data?

I imagine building the app would be quite straightforward - perhaps a £5
app?

Andy

2009/4/6 Steve Purkiss <steve at purkiss.com>

> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Joe Aliferis <joe at newforms.co.uk> wrote:
> > An idea... what would the core members each need to contribute to the
> > infrastructure ?
> >
>
> Being an applications programmer I'm not that sussed up on what is
> needed, but I'm sure there are plenty on this list who would know,
> hence me replying and hopefully planting a few seeds in peoples'
> minds. All I know is after much time spent thinking about this subject
> that's the conclusion I've come to taking what's already possible out
> there.
>
> It would be a massive effort but starting somewhere would be good, and
> I'm of the belief that anything in life which is too easy has its side
> effects somewhere.
>
> > I wonder if we would still fall under the legislation requiring ISP's to
> > retain users activity data for 12 months tho ?
> >
> I'm sure there'd be ways around it. There's more of 'us' (those who
> are controlled) than 'them' (those who control) at the end of the day,
> and with the recent events of riot police killing an innocent man in
> London it's about time we actually started doing something before it
> gets even more out of hand, I do not believe total control is the
> answer, people power is!
>
> > Joe
> >
> >> For those of us in populous areas we should work towards creating our
> >> own http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking infrastructure so
> >> that we take back the control we give away each day by paying ISPs
> >> thus creating a number of single-point failures and enabling them to
> >> exert control over us.
> >>
> >> The One Laptop Per Child project (http://laptop.org) is a good example
> >> of this in action.
> >>
> >> just my 2p
> >>
> >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joe Aliferis <joe at newforms.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7985339.stm
> >>>
> >>> Joe
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