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- Jonsblckhwk, on 07/24/2008, -1/+49Embarq was also blocking ALL bittorrent traffic. Their customer service reps gave the run around and a denial as i sat at home attempting. Embarq has always given me ***** service, whether internet or phone so i dropped them. I'd almost say they are worse than comcast.
- indiancompanion, on 07/25/2008, -0/+26I must live in the worst place for internet, my two choices are Embarq or Comcast. What do I do now?
- davidbeile, on 07/25/2008, -1/+19This may just be a small taste of what's to come.
- serif69, on 07/25/2008, -0/+14I hope the advertising is for identity theft solutions and class action attorneys.
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -0/+14"Telecom subcommittee head Reps. Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts), watchdog groups and law professors have questioned whether the technology violates federal privacy laws, including the wiretapping statute."
with the new FISA bill that just went through, i didn't think there was much left of our 'federal privacy laws' for companies like Embarq to violate. isn't eavesdropping just business as usual these days? - scojac, on 07/25/2008, -0/+14What are you, unpatriotic or something?
- richiewrt, on 07/25/2008, -0/+14Rely on smoke signals.
- Pittance, on 07/25/2008, -0/+13Bit-torrent is illegal? Really? Do you really want to say that? Cause that really makes you look like a complete idiot.
- MaxIsBored, on 07/25/2008, -0/+13Isn't there some sort of privacy law against this? I mean, what's this difference them going through your internet, and your mail?
- Aldanga, on 07/25/2008, -1/+14I resent that.
***** Embarq. - techblogLAT, on 07/25/2008, -0/+9Hey Embarq, if you're watching me type this: Screw you!
- scottc, on 07/25/2008, -1/+10I just suffered through an Embarq "high speed" connection at my parents' home while on vacation last week, and I wasn't doing file sharing of any kind...just normal web browsing. Unfortunately they live in a very small town and have no other provider.
- Klowner, on 07/25/2008, -0/+8Bittorrent is just as illegal as the rest of the internet. You sir, are either misinformed or a corporate shill.
I downloaded Ubuntu isos the other day, guess how? Bittorrent.. - DeFex, on 07/25/2008, -0/+8cans + string
- davidbeile, on 07/25/2008, -1/+8I'd cry.
- Klowner, on 07/25/2008, -0/+6go down to their offices with a hammer and demand they get their crap together
- sponeil, on 07/25/2008, -0/+6"advertising technology that profiles users"
So now the ISP's are going to send us porn ads as well? Why not just nail them with the "can-spam" act? - pilobilus, on 07/25/2008, -1/+7Seriously, no, there is no such law. Other than contract law - read your terms of service agreement with your ISP carefully. It gets worse: They can change the agreement at any time, not inform you of the changes, and enforce those changes against you in a court of law. Your only options for privacy and security are anonymized services like TOR and encryption like GPG.
All your base are belong to them. You have no chance to survive. Make your time. - scojac, on 07/25/2008, -0/+6Keyword there: "almost".
- j0hneb0y81, on 07/25/2008, -0/+6no they're not.
Embarq spun off Sprint.. - andydumi, on 07/25/2008, -0/+5Proof bittorrent is illegal please.
And no one is picking on the tech support, they are probably as powerless as the consumers, people are picking on the decision makers who would conceive of such a plan. - xireddawnix, on 07/25/2008, -4/+9Embarq is owned by Sprint. What do you expect when it comes to service?
- mroberts, on 07/25/2008, -0/+5But you just said Bit-Torrent WAS illegal! Which is it Jackass? ... Community College drop-out Tier One Tech Support moron!
- warispeace21, on 07/25/2008, -1/+6***** you.
- TrueXtremeIcon, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4Packet Carrying Pigeons
- KirbyMorph, on 07/25/2008, -1/+5They have the internet in Kansas?
- Smaulz, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4Has there ever been an instance of a post being buried so fast and hard that it actually rips the fabric of space and time?
- mrhahn, on 07/25/2008, -1/+5Sounds like what some ISPs here in England were doing -- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/27/bt_phorm_1 ...
- richiewrt, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4You sir are an idiot. My proof:
"Bit-torrent is illegal anyone in tech knows they shouldn't do it anyways."
Bit-torrent is a protocol, and has nothing to do with the legality of the downloads done through the protocol. You might as well say HTTP is illegal since you can download illegal content with it as well. I have embarq service and have been happy with it, no bit-torrent throttling or anything that I feel was disadvantageous to my internet usage. Although they do server ads from their DNS servers on misspelled url's. Oh, and their tech support are idiots, but I don't blame them, all company tech support's are idiots no matter what isp you go with. - miamidolfan13, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4You will see a lot more spying now that FISA passed and signed. Below are the Dems who helped the GOP crush the 4th amendment.
http://www.bluetidalwave.com/2008/07/fisa-hit-list ... - thegodfaza, on 07/25/2008, -1/+4There is no such thing as "worst than comcast".
- TrueXtremeIcon, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3You ***** retard. Read what you ***** wrote:
"I work tech support and I know some people call 1 time in 5 years to finally tell us they have been having problems since day 1, you have to report it for us to know, we only have a bazillion customers? Just know the facts before you banter." - josh0518, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3I think the ones who are affected should claim compensation for the snooping that the ISP did. People should file a class action lawsuit and request for damages for the illegal data obtained and also be entitled to any sort of benefit that these ISPs received.
I think the whole concept of ISPs using user data to earn money from advertisements should be illegal. If they wish to earn money through this method, they should first request authorization from the end user and then also any income earned through the system should be split with the customers themselves through potentially cash backs or reducing monthly internet bills. The rationale being that this is the user's data, they have the right to sell them for money, not the ISPs. The ISPs have no right at all to utilize the users data in any way unless given consent and provide compensation to the data owner from using any of the data. Since intellectual property is such a hot topic right now, personal data should in fact be classified as a form of intellectual property and the rights owners are the once whose habit creates the data in the first place. - Pittance, on 07/25/2008, -3/+6***** them both. Not everyone in Kansas, just all of the backwards people who think it is their right to force other people's children to learn about jesus in a public school, and call creationism science.
- whoreable, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3All they found out was just how popular NASCAR is among middle americans.
- srv0, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3Yet, with all those certs + school + 'intelligence'... you work phone support for a two-bit ISP?
(and dude, pushing carts for fortune 500 companies doesn't count) - NFLSuperFan, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3That bluetidalwave list was quite depressing.
- tremor_tj, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3Give it a rest. Sprint has been trying really hard to turn it around since getting rid of the last two crook CEOs. Embarq is not Sprint.
- larrythedog, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3For more detail than you ever thought possible, listen to episodes 151 and 153 of Security Now. Steve Gibson has been RAILING against this for a couple of weeks now. Well worth the listen at http://twit.tv/sn
- BobsYourUncle, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3Good thing you didn't brag about your English skills.
- WorldGroove, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3@consigliocisco
BitTorrent is illegal, ....wow...
That wasn't even well played. You have to at least make it look like you're legit and have no connections to EMBARQ. - rewritable, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3I've had embarq for 3 years now, I've never had the problems you are speaking of. I've had them from 768k to 1500k to 3000 and now I am at 5000. I have downloaded terabytes of data with bittorent I've never had them send me more than my statement each month.....and i am not downloading linux distros. My bittorent speeds have never been thottled at least to my knowledge. (300 to 500 KB's on most downloads tells me they aren't throttling me I've always been using the built in encryption with utorrent)
I love embarq and I'll keep them until the go out of business or I move to an area where I cannot get service with them which wont be any time soon, where else can I get 5MB DSL service 5-6 miles from a town of less than 5000 resident? please let me know. - mroberts, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Hmmm.... 19 years old, a ***** Degree probably purchased online, and has worked for 3 Fortune 500 companies and types comments in Leetspeak.
Doesn't add up some how. - akula89, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto
- greensky, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2even if there are privacy laws left, why not just violate the law and have congress make your actions legal a few years later.
- Thrilltone, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2I had Comcast for many years and thought they sucked.
I had Embarq for 3 months and they are THE WORST.
Cancelled them last week after being overcharged on every bill, sometimes double charged.
I'm using Brighthouse for cable, web and phone now. I like them a lot. - iroc409, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Bit torrent is a technology and certainly isn't illegal. There are plenty of legitimate uses for it, in fact I recently had to install a bit torrent client just to get a certain flavor of linux.
- Intercon, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2
In 10 years, after the Second American Civil War, you can look back on news items like these as indicators of a systematic dismantling of citizen's rights in this country; right before the fascists took over.
The wiretapping laws, strengthened after Nixon's debacle, have now gone out the window with the latest FISA bill. Little by little, the implementation of an extremely effective monitoring and control system is being put into place.
Digg me down all you like: you wil see this system used against ordinary citizens very soon. - inactive, on 07/25/2008, -1/+3The internet is outside of your home. There are no laws in any country that protect anything outside of your home. Even phone conversations are and always have been monitored without court orders. Myself and many others were required to leave access to various agencies open, no restrictions, no logging, no auditing. It has been this way for decades and will continue to be this way forever.
Anything you don't want monitored should be encrypted using your own custom encryption algorithms and padded packets to avoid pattern analysis.
To keep the lower tech agencies from snooping, just using SSL certs and enforcing strong encryption is sufficient. SSL certs are dirt cheap now. There is no excuse for a website to be clear text any more.
Email and federal mail are unrelated. Email is less secure than a postcard. - greenm1981, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Dude, what are you thinking! If you really work for Embarq as a techie, like you claim to, you shouldn't be representing your company like this on ***** digg. I don't think your HR department would like to receive emails from a bunch of angry diggers, complete with your digg profile picture and a few screen shots of your comments.
I'm not going to complain, because I'd hate for you to lose your job over something so stupid as a digg argument. But, Jesus! Think it through.
Your little exchange on here is not good for your company, which you should have learned in your Organization Management classes by now. -
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