Correct. However, with law intention and actual consequences matter more than the technical procedure. The mail carrier programs may copy your bits and bytes, they may even include this right in their customer agreement (not EULA) or even generate anonymous "personized ads" However, the moment they start manually snooping in your personal mail for personal gains, they're on thin legal ice.

Usually though, the term "MITM-attack" is used for unconventional attacks, not expected ones such as these. But this doesn't make it NOT a MITM-attack IMHO. Especially so if the carrier is a trusted entity, and has breached that trust. (Trust is not a security feature, it's a security HOLE, most people are not used to thinking in these lines..)

*Ahem* Apple DID NOT invent the term "App" meaning "application(s)"..

People have been using that term for probably close to 20 years now (I feel a bit older suddenly ;)

Not really. "MITM-attack" may mean many different kinds of attack, and is not usually referred to as a breah of network, but whatever malicious purposes such a position as being in the middle can be abused for. Of course, the "Man" is found in the "middle" of your communication between your hopefully trustworthy partner. However, "MITM-attack" doesn't specify wether the "Man" was already there or not, just that "he or she's in the middle" and is doing somethiing they're not supposed to. The connection being HTTP, well, who can blame them? Who uses HTTP today when there are so many better options? Oh yeah, the entire fuckin world! Who's stupid now?

Basically, an ISP fuckin with your packets, is entirely within the definition of MITM-attack. An ISP doing this is in fact in breach of your trust, and has by doing such, gotten a proven track-record of untrustworthiness.

Your typical knee-jerk reaction is the sole reason I've de-bookmarked /.

Why try to post anything meaningful or interesting if people are not willing to discuss, only moderate down what they already "know"?

I already de-bookmarked /. several months ago. This type of thinking is exhaggerated in a force-feedback loop where the "believers" discredit whoever says something out of line of the crows-speak. Open-minded and truly sceptical discussion, almost never happens on /., only reiteration of dogma. Calling it "science" is a big intellectual bluff, because without fail, it always seeks to reinforce an already fixed belief system, and seek to destroy anyone else having a different world perspective and experiences.

Good luck with your war against your strawmen Creationist-boogeymen, and whatever fruits that may bring you. New discoveries, inventions, progress and evolution is meant for others I guess. Creationism is not worth anyone's attention, but these days, people fall for anything.

Duh, this is /. Facts and free speech only applies when we agree with it.

Yeah, and this is /. and this time, most of the scum is US.

Now what do we do 'bout it? ;-)

Btw, I've seen my aura, so I'll get discredited along with everyone else not fitting in the crows mentality here.

You'll be absolutely fine just staying put on your chair. Running amok just seems like another Darwin-award this year. After all, this is /. and we know better than you!

It is OK to keep a log of the devices whereabouts... on the device. It is not OK to transfer that data to another entity without explicit permission of the devices owner... and better ask one time too often for that permission...

Really? Without asking or informing me? Is it OK for my spouse or children to hack into my location-data then? Or scanners at airports? Or at the local grocery store? Or for forensic to incriminate me by my own device? Etc, etc.

I've explained it before, I will never buy Apple again. I bought into the hype some years ago, and regret each and every purchase for various reasons.

Science can explain religion; not vice versa.

Too bad science can't prove religion, and no, true science can never explain the unexplainable, that's just a dishonest fantasy of pseudoscientists trying to frame all of reality into their own narrow little worldview. It doesn't even matter if some superstitions are true or not or in what degree, because it's just a question of having the courage to keep an open mind about it, that's all. If you do, you could become the next Newton, Einstein, or something great, instead of all those who can only keep one thought in their mind at the same time, gets nervous at ambiguity and paradoxes, and then frantically try to follow the mainstream.

Btw, someone mentioned Wikileaks. Where are they now that Amazon, Visa and Mastercard have banned them? Amazon may be many things, but democracy or freedom doesn't enter into any art of the equation.

Nice, so colocating means you give your code and data to thieves and governments. Just great doing business with you!

I'm seeing very little "innovative worth protecting" in iPhone over, say, Windows Desktop icons.

iPhone apps is based on HTML. Surely, you can't patent "simplistic blue look" or "simple interface"?

Software patents are just STUPID, and no, as a CUSTOMER, I'm not interested in one company having a strangehold on the entire industry, or my own startup company..

My new shiny laptop got blueray, it even came with a preview demo-blueray.

But Windows 7 can neither play Blueray and DVDs, and while the latter is easily fixed with VLC, I have yet to find a blueray player in Windows, either free or non-free.

So I canned the blueray demo-disc, and never intend to play blueray again until there is a free player available or they give it to me.

These companies seem hell-bent to try to screw over their own customers. Bad move.. Blueray is Sony, so I'm not interested anyways.

We need to support heroes like DVD-Jon, not Sony or Apple.

No problem. I imposed a Never-Buy-Anything-Sony-Again rule on my own person ca 1999, after buying a crippled digital camera with inferior and propriertary Memorysticks. They've never been there for MY NEEDS, so I will never buy anything Sony again no matter what!

Same with Apple ca some time after iJail came out.

Under the Law, ignorance is no excuse..