FCC releases Internet speed test tool

[surfer at mauigateway.com (Scott Weeks)]

--- smb at cs.columbia.edu wrote:
From: Steven Bellovin <smb at cs.columbia.edu>
On Mar 12, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
 
> It requires giving your address.
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> 
> Nah, no real address needed.  Just use 123 elm street abbeville alabama 
> 36310.  That's the first zip code I found on a site...  ;-)

Putting in a fake address renders your data useless.  

Now -- under the Privacy Act, if they're collecting addresses I believe they had to do a Privacy Impact Assessment.  ---------------------------------------------


I don't like giving my address out to anyone that asks for it.  I just wanted to sniff the traffic and see what was going on.  I wasn't too concerned with being a valid data point.  Cmon, I believe you know some security stuff and why I might chose to do that... ;-)

scott

ps. there's a helluva delay going on on the list today...