Category Archives: Internet
Draft: Public Comments for CRTC PN 2008-19
( Source ) I’m in the process of pulling together some privacy-related thoughts surrounding Canadian ISPs’ use of DPI equipment. I’ve posted an early draft of the document, and invite comments and thoughts. If you want to prepare your own comments, you’ve still got until February 23rd. Continue reading
Update: Geolocation and Yahoo!’s Fire Eagle
Given the Mozilla is currently developing their Fennec browser for mobile environments, it suggests that the Fire Eagle plugin could come to phones and other mobile devices that are Internet-by-WiFi but not GPS or data plan enabled. Using a browser plugin, it should be possible to identify your location on a map simply by being in vicinity to wireless APs, regardless of whether you can actually authenticate to them (similar to how users with iPod Touches can currently roughly locate themselves on Google Maps via WiFi MAC address detection). Below is an image of Mozilla’s beta-version of Fennec. 
( Source ) As a person with an iPod Touch, I absolutely adore it’s WiFi location features – I haven’t gotten lost in my new city since purchasing the Touch. Continue reading
Update: Associating Canadian ISPs with Anonymized Data Traffic Submissions
Responses to question 1 (b) show that the percentage of HTTP/Streaming traffic has increased, two companies report that the percentage of P2P traffic has increased and two report it has decreased slightly, UDP traffic has increased slightly, and the “Other” category now accounts for a smaller percentage of total traffic than in the first months measured. … For the top 5% of users, HTTP/Streaming has remained relatively constant, P2P use decreased for only one company, UDP traffic is up, and “Other” traffic has decreased for two of three companies. For the top 10% of users, HTTP/Streaming traffic makes up a higher percentage of total traffic, in all but one case P2P traffic represents a larger percentage of total traffic, UDP is up, and “Other” is down for two of three companies. Continue reading
Update: CRTC PN 2008-19 ISP Filing Summary Document
( Source ) I’ve updated my initial ISP Filing Summary document with the information that ISPs provided on February 9, 2008 per the CRTC’s February 4, 2009 request. … The updates to not include Videotron’s response to 1 (c) . I would maintain that the most interesting parts of was was released have been summarized in a post from two days ago, which was entitled ” Update: CRTC PN 2008-19 Filings “. Tomorrow, I should be posting a document that correlates data the CRTC aggregated and anonymized with the ISPs who were required to release anonymized data. Continue reading
