It’s not like Qwest couldn’t keep track of what we were doing on their own…

Of course your ISP has all of the information collected here and more, and anyone who really gives a crap about anonymity needs to consider other solutions (Tor, GNUnet, etc). But maybe, hypothetically, I don’t want my roommate, who shares my DSL connection, having access to what porn (or knitting, or music, or whatever) sites I’m checking out, and maybe (like the stupid iPhone location log everyone’s freaked out about) I just don’t want an extra (perhaps insecurely stored) log of my activity hanging around on on my devices that I can’t shut off.

Which, in fact, I didn’t. Whole point of this (ancient) post.

The issue isn’t the logging, because frankly, you either accept that your traffic goes through intermediaries between you and the destination and that you have no control over who keeps track of what, or you do something to obscure the nature of that traffic as it goes from you to the destination and hope that that is enough.

You can’t expect your mobile phone provider not to know (or keep track of) your location, but it isn’t unreasonable to want your phone OS 1) not to keep a separate local log of your locations, and 2) if they do, store it securely; similarly, you can’t expect your ISP not to know (or keep track of) your traffic, but it isn’t unreasonable to want your (ISP-mandated) DSL modem not to keep a separate local log of your traffic, either.

Whether that’s overly paranoid or not is subject to debate, but philosophically, I object to being forced to store logging information on my own hardware that I would rather not have stored locally.

telnet 192.168.0.1

*username/password* (these must be set in advanced>remote Telnet in the GUI, you can leave the “remote telnet” option disabled though.)

sh (typing “sh” takes you out of the telnet shell and into the full busybox shell)

cd /var

rm webActivityLog

ln -s /dev/null webActivityLog (if you don’t do this immediately after the previous command, it will say “file exists” just make sure nobody is using the network while you are doing this to help avoid that problem)

exit

exit (you have to type “exit” twice to get out of the busybox shell, then telnet)

The system log can be found by typing 192.168.0.1/support/utilities into your http: box it will ask you for your username and password after typing it in it will bring up Qwest m1000 website and look at the utilities options box and it is there.

If anyone knows if it can be deleted or if it is necessary I would like to know.

thanks

lls

I dont know if this posting is still viable but I have setup a script to delete the web log and found out that there is a system log located at 192.168.0.1/support/utilities and was wondering if there was anyway to delete the system log or is it needed for some reason.

thanks for all your help!

If you really give a crap about what your ISP sees, you need to be looking at Tor or GNUnet or … – I never make claims of establishing anonymity of any type here