Do ISPs know every site youve went on and everything youve downloaded?

[niwi7]

Ive had cable thru optimum online for four years or so...

do they keep records of every website you visit even back so many years? That must take up so much room if they do

 

I doubt it. That's hundreds of terabytes worth of data.

 

[Shawn]

nah

 

[Evadman]

Why, did you piss them off?

 

[rudeguy]

yes they know it all...delete your midget porn now, or suffer the consequences

 

[waitman]

Call and ask them!

 

[OverVolt]

Originally posted by: waitman
Call and ask them!

Yes! thats whats i would do.
And i doubt they check WHAT u downloaded, but i know they keep check of HOW MUCH u downloaded

 

[niwi7]

yea i was j/w bc of pr0n and i used to d/l dc games when it was popular to do so (flame me i dont care lol)

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: rudeguy
yes they know it all...delete your midget porn now, or suffer the consequences

Haha

 

[rutchtkim]

nope, the closest is prolly storing cached data on their proxy's. which will eventually be flushed anyway.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: jumpr
I doubt it. That's hundreds of terabytes worth of data.

Perhaps you fail to comprehend just how ridiculously well text logs compress. ISPs could easily have traffic logs from the beginning of the Intarweb.

- M4H

 

[narzy]

they can if they want to...lets put it that way.

 

[TommyVercetti]

I know that my university stores everything that goes through its internet connection. But only a select few people have access to that information and can only be released under some court order. I think they keep upto 3 years of data.

 

[isaacmacdonald]

Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
I know that my university stores everything that goes through its internet connection. But only a select few people have access to that information and can only be released under some court order. I think they keep upto 3 years of data.

either you have pretty weak bandwidth, or your university has dedicated 1000's of terabytes to logging packets. That, or they don't. More likely is a short term log of where and when, rather than actual information.

 

[narzy]

Originally posted by: isaacmacdonald

Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
I know that my university stores everything that goes through its internet connection. But only a select few people have access to that information and can only be released under some court order. I think they keep upto 3 years of data.

either you have pretty weak bandwidth, or your university has dedicated 1000's of terabytes to logging packets. That, or they don't. More likely is a short term log of where and when, rather than actual information.

for some reason you folk think we capture packets, umm NO!, we keep logs of what IP you go to and what port you used...and what directories your went to and the file names of what you retrived. this data does not take up all that much room, even years worth of it, when compressed will fit in a fairly small amount of space, under a TB.

 

[GroundZero]

another kazza user sweating his ass off?
or is it all that kiddie porn?
they know the times, ips, directories, files, etc...
your ass is grass buddy!
bigbrother is coming to take you away...

 

[spidey07]

Yes, we know and see everything incase it is called to court.