Google Hijacked — Major ISP to Intercept and Modify Web Pages

2007/12/09

Ο Lauren Weinstein φέρνει στην προσοχή μας την περίπτωση ενός Καναδικού ISP, ο οποίος θέλοντας να ενημερώνει τους χρήστες του για την κατανάλωση σε bandwidth σε σχέση με την υπηρεσία που έχουν αγοράσει, παρεμβάλει ενημερωτικά μηνύματα όταν οι χρήστες προσπαθούν να δουν κάτι στο Google Canada:

“While Rogers’ current planned use for this Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and modification system (reportedly manufactured by “In-Browser Marketing” firm “PerfTech”) is for account status messages, it’s obvious that commercial ISP content and ads (beyond the ISP logos already displayed) would be trivial to introduce through this mechanism. By the way, PerfTech is even using Google for one of its linked promotional examples on the PerfTech home page. I wonder if they bothered to ask Google permission for that?”

Κι εγώ που ένιωθα ενοχές όταν πριν χρόνια εμείς κάναμε transparent web caching*

“Question: Will Web service providers such as Google and many others, who have spent vast resources in both talent and treasure creating and maintaining their services’ appearances and quality, be willing to stand still while any ISP intercepts and modifies their traffic in such a manner?”

Ελπίζω πως όχι.

[via Interesting-People]


[*] – και αυτό για όσο είχαμε προβλήματα bandwidth

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