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Originally Posted by Chris
To the original question: any decent router has logs of the urls it has served up. Whether Starbucks staff can access it will depend on how internet service is provided to customers. I suspect that they probably can't.
Content filtering is normally performed at the domain name level. Filtering services don't normally try to identify and block specific content within otherwise approved websites (like YouTube).
Finally, there are any number of reasons for a customer to choose their seat, use headphones and even to view gymnastics videos. Such behaviour isn't illegal even if in his heart of hearts he is a complete pervert. Unless you see him doing something that really is criminal, you risk embarrassing everyone concerned by expressing your discomfort.
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Most of the leading quadrant filtering solutions are capable of performing some kind of DPI so the administrator may implement protocol filters and/or content filters to block specific types of file or tunneled protocols for example. There are other safety measures such as sandboxing content before it's delivered to the client but that's probably out of scope for what BT is delivering to Starbucks.
With regards logging that all depends whether the provider is logging the full URL or just the domain hit. Also, as Damien mentioned with regards HTTPS: Unless the client facing gateway is running SSL interception then you won't be logging any http headers from an SSL conversation as they're in the TCP payload which is encrypted.
Apologies if the above is a bit over-nerdy
