[Linux-aus] bigpond now uses proxy servers to spy on 'us'

[Kelly Daly]

Personally, I'd be more worried about this claim on the web analytics site:

"Incorporate web analytics into your everyday workflow, and meld it with
other important data through tight integration with Microsoft Excel."

<shock><horror>
How DARE they take my open source web activities and dirty them with such
atrocities as Excel!!  the scoundrels.
</horror></shock>

K



On 7/4/06, James Polley <zhasper at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Senectus is correct.
>
> You can get information about Akamai's services at
> http://www.akamai.com/en/html/services/overview.html. Basically, they put
> proxies in major datacenters/major ISP hubs around the world, and cache
> their customers sites there - so that, for instance, when a Telstra customer
> visits the site of an Akamai customer, the page is served off a Telstra
> server directly on Telstra's backbone, ensuring very fast response times for
> the user.
>
> There's nothing malicious about this at all. This is not something Telstra
> have done, it's something the sites you mentioned (cnn.com et al) have
> paid large some of money to have done, so that you get a better service.
>
>
> On 7/4/06, Senectus . <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > As far as I can tell, akamai technologies are an Internet
> > caching/streaming media delivery service that seem to be very popular
> > around the world.
> > They seem to have a very googlish philosophy about how they build
> > their hardware, with lots of common sense redundancies and smart
> > designs, and they're so good at it they're world wide.
> >
> > seems innocent enough to me.
> >
> >
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