Re:Comcast injecting JS
by djtriptych on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @06:10PM
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Your profile reveals you're a former Comcast employee. That's a disclaimer worth posting here.
But yeah, if you have service with Comcast they have your home phone, email addresses, and physical address. They can get in touch with you every way that every company that CAN'T read all of your internet traffic already gets in touch with you.
The method they've chosen is terrible for at least the following reasons:
- The alert will not work on many platforms & devices.
- The alert may not reach the account owner.
- The alert will not work on SSL traffic.
- There is no record that the customer saw the alert (contrast with phone call)
- There are serious privacy issues involved in parsing user's web traffic.
But yeah, if you have service with Comcast they have your home phone, email addresses, and physical address. They can get in touch with you every way that every company that CAN'T read all of your internet traffic already gets in touch with you.
The method they've chosen is terrible for at least the following reasons: - The alert will not work on many platforms & devices. - The alert may not reach the account owner. - The alert will not work on SSL traffic. - There is no record that the customer saw the alert (contrast with phone call) - There are serious privacy issues involved in parsing user's web traffic.