[143313] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US internet providers hijacking users' search queries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Aug 5 21:00:54 2011
To: Bino Gopal <Bino.Gopal@citrix.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:04:51 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:59:42 -0400
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:04:51 PDT, Bino Gopal said:
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20768-us-internet-providers-hijacking-users-search-queries.html
>
> Thoughts?
You're new here, aren't you? ;)
Anybody who was around when a certain DNS provider started providing a wildcard
for *.com and *.net so they could funnel the web page hits to their redirector
shouldn't be surprised. Unless they're surprised it took this long to make the
news again.
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