'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC with cheap Wi-Fi

Re:'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC wi... by jlgaddis on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @03:36PM (#16980424)

I've worked for an ISP for about six and a half years. In that time, I have received I-don't-know-how-many e-mails about people torrenting and so on. I've had one conversation with a Special Agent from DHS investigating credit card fraud.

Over this same period, I have given out a customer's identifying information zero times (if more than 24 hours have passed, there is a very small chance that I am able to identify the customer). In every instance, it was "sorry, I am not able to identify the customer".

Zero is also the number of times I have heard anything from any of my upstreams regarding any ToS violations or similar.

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Re:'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC wi... by yazr on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:04PM (#16980671)

> if more than 24 hours have passed, there is a very > small chance that I am able to identify the customer

Hmm ??? Could u please explain.

I always assumed that all ISPs will store all DHCP (PPPoE? PPTP? IANANE) allocations by IP & time.

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Re:'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC wi... by jlgaddis on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @08:13PM (#16982275)

I'm sure that most do. Those records are kept for systems I manage as well, but not for any longer than I need them.

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Re:'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC wi... by dylz on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @06:26PM (#16981705)

CG-NAT, NAT, etc?

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