[mdlug] [Fwd: [opensuse-offtopic] Some ISPs are fiddling with your pages]

[Jeff Hanson]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dodgy unauthorised adulteration
>
>  By Egan Orion
>  <http://www.theinquirer.net/articles/flameAuthor/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/16/isps-altering-web-traffic>:
>
>  Wednesday, 16 April 2008, 12:14 PM
>
>  *GRADUATE STUDENTS* at the University of Washington have found that some
>  Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are meddling with the contents of web
>  pages in transit to their subscribers.
>
>  Their paper
>  <http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/security/web-tripwire/nsdi-2008.pdf>
>  (pdf), which is to be delivered Wednesday at the Usenix Symposium on
>  Networked Systems Design and Implementation in San Francisco, outlines
>  that about one per cent of the web pages that the researchers tested had
>  been altered during transmission.
>
>  The authors document some alarming practices by some ISPs. They examined
>  the data flowing to about 50,000 computers and found that certain ISPs
>  were injecting adverts into web pages transmitted on their networks.
>  They also founs that some web browsing and ad-blocking software was
>  altering pages and creating security vulnerabilities at the same time.
>
>  Co-author and PhD student Charles Reis said, "The Web is a lot more wild
>  than we originally expected." µ
>
>
>  http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/16/isps-altering-web-traffic

Not surprising.  They were already intercepting keyword searches:
http://www.computerdefense.org/2007/01/27/charter-communications-hijacks-microsoft-live-search/