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Re: Verizon Wireless DNS Tunneling


From: xD 0x41 <secn3t () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:26:33 +1100

Interesting thread... issues of privacy are again raping the tech world..
please assist in exposing comcast if this is indeed true.
Either someone has been playing admin and put up some kind of fake login
page although thats highly unlikely,proof of the actual deployment of an exe
by the isp is a huge issue.
I know some isp's make use of port 80, and remote-assist,but they do not
rely on it,not in a usual Isp that is forsure.
Comcast is huge, id be looking into it more and gathering REAL HARD proof of
this,wether it was a tech acting alone or infact some kind of page they have
forwaded you to to "assist" possibly..if you can recall any recent
interactions with comcast,and what took place, this would also help.
You want exactly what page was downloaded FROM  and then ask them about it
(beforehand though makesure to also check theyre TOS regarding theyre usage
of anything - i doubt this would be visible so you maybe onto a winnder),it
would be great to see it even this exe and allow the list to debug it.
That would then probably give you plenty of info about the executable IF it
was installed by a comcast tech, you could then sue for that and any
*damages* or, just having a slower line/instability/droputs/downage etc
etc.... i would definately be looking into it before assuming it is comcasts
exe 100%.
It is a massive breach of privacy if this is how they are acting, unless it
is standard practice for some cases where they may assist remotely, and then
would probably need some diagnostic executables,but really this should not
be hard to find.. I would get your logs out and even take a peek into tmp of
your downloads for IE/FF or whatever your browser, and try to trace it to
when it was implanted.
Goodluck,cheers!
xd


On 8 October 2011 01:47, Terrence <secretpackets () gmail com> wrote:

To the guy saying that comcast  requires an executable to authenticate you.
Ha. You should prolly wipe your install.
On Oct 7, 2011 10:41 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:

On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:36:39 EDT, James Wright said:

That would probably explain why the Comcast service page downloads an
executable to authenticate you.  At that point they have control over
the
end user's machine and can either clear the DNS cache or force a reboot.

That must suck if you're a non-Windows user. ;)

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