In the wake of the revelations of the former National Security Agency (NSA) employee, Edward Snowdon, which revealed the mass surveillance carried out by the United States government, many people worried about being spied on constantly. Much of the media attention has focused on companies that govern the Internet such as Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook, forgetting that there is a missing piece of the puzzle: ISPs, i.e. internet connection providers such as Fastweb, Telecom, Vodafone and Infostrada.
Answering the title question is impossible unless another sensational scandal arises.
The suspicion, however, is there, especially if we talk about internet providers that force customers to use their proprietary modem, completely blocked in the settings and viewing of statistical data .
The cue to deepen the topic came to me when I went to the home of a friend who has BT (British Telecom) as his provider.
This friend of mine had forgotten the wifi access password set on the router / modem installed by a BT technician.
As we know, setting up a router and changing passwords is quite easy, too bad that in this case the router login password was not one of the default ones.
I therefore thought of resetting the router to remove the wifi password, with the bad result of making the internet no longer available.
In short, the BT modem router cannot be touched by the user and to restore the internet my friend had to wait for a technician to intervene.
Searching the internet for information on BT I discovered that this network provider had already been reported as a possible sneak of user data.
BT, like other internet service providers, uses a blocked modem where no settings can be changed and where the log of the sites visited is active.
BT technicians can enter the modem to make changes to the network parameters and updates without having to go to the customers' home, but perhaps also with the possibility of knowing what the customers have done on the internet.
It must be said that this way of doing is very common in the sector and is also well known.
BT is certainly not the only company that forces users to use their modem so the discussion can be extended to many providers (not Telecom with which, however, any modem router can be used).
Because some providers force us to put in their home a blocked modem on which we have no power and which can have any technology inside to spy on us "> ways to surf anonymously on the internet, changing DNS, using a Proxy or encrypting traffic through a VPN.
In another article we then saw how VPN, Proxy and DNS work for online anonymity.
To learn more, you can read similar articles on the CNN, Telegraph, Computerweekly websites.
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