Modem backdoor

[nmercer]

It's also a ridiculously incorrect statement to claim ISPs can see all your traffic.

[Chilling_Silence]

It's also a ridiculously incorrect statement to claim ISPs can see all your traffic.

Errrm what makes you say that? Your data goes through their core switches etc? So a packet capture on that with your IP as the filter, and yeah, they can see the traffic...
Does a T1 or T2 helpdesk monkey have access to do that? Hell no, but it's still plausible for your ISP such as Spark / TelstraClear etc to do-so.

[nmercer]

Errrm what makes you say that? Your data goes through their core switches etc? So a packet capture on that with your IP as the filter, and yeah, they can see the traffic...
Does a T1 or T2 helpdesk monkey have access to do that? Hell no, but it's still plausible for your ISP such as Spark / TelstraClear etc to do-so.

SSL/TLS is still secure

I also could be running a VPN

It's a scaremongering piece of journalism designed to generate clicks

[pctek]

LOL, and next: all your calls and texts that helpdesk people sit there all day reading/listening to.
That's why your wait times are so long, they're saying hang on, just got to finish reading this one, it's such a laugh.


(That's sarcasm, in case someone actually believes that)

[Chilling_Silence]

SSL/TLS is still secure

I also could be running a VPN

It's a scaremongering piece of journalism designed to generate clicks

It is, and you could be, but you're not...
This is why there are the HTTPS Everywhere initiatives, along with LetsEncrypt.

So the statement:

It's also a ridiculously incorrect statement to claim ISPs can see all your traffic.

is factually incorrect. ISP's *can*, but, basically choose not to, because it's pretty much pointless.