I know in a home network, there are softwares that can monitor the TCP conversation occurred in the network and are capable of recording the download links sent from a computer. But my question is from an ISP level, because they use dynamic IP to address customer, would they be able to capture which links a user downloads? Thank you.
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closed as off topic by ErikA, GregD, Ward, John Gardeniers, Shane Madden Oct 3 '11 at 16:52
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In short, yes. Any unencrypted traffic is subject to being monitored at any point between your LAN edge (be it a cable modem, dsl modem, FIOS termination box, etc.) and the destination server. The fact that you have a dynamic IP offers no protection. The ISP keeps logs of which IP addresses were handed out to which customers, complete with timestamps of how long that DHCP lease was active. If you are browsing an SSL-secured website, the ISP will be able to see which IP address(es) you're communicating with, but the contents of that communication will be encrypted and as such, not easily accessible. | |||||
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They can monitor the traffic that is coming from your connection which would allow them to track the unencrypted traffic that you send. If you use something like Tor that will proxy your connection through a Tor relay so they will only be able to tell that you made an encrypted connection to a Tor node. If you run a Tor relay, then other people will use your internet connection and they won't be able to say whether it was you going to those sites. Similarly, although I haven't seen any cases proving it, if you run an open WiFi network, you could claim that someone else could have been using your connection. I first heard the idea from Bruce Schneier. | |||
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