[64982] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Web hijacking by router - a new method of advertisement by Belkin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Selene)
Fri Nov 7 20:29:49 2003
From: "Adam Selene" <nospam@vguild.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 19:33:33 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
"The router would grab a random HTTP connection
every eight hours and redirect it to Belkin's (push)
advertised web page."
"In response criticism, a Belkin product manager came
forward this week to confirm the behaviour was
designed into the products..."
Do they not realize that this has a strong possibility
of breaking any web application every eight hours?
What happens when a call to a site's javascript file,
stylesheet, internal frame page, or XML data gets
replaced by a Belkin advertisement? The site breaks
and they get a support telephone call.
Major class action lawsuit material, not just by every
Belkin user but by every web publisher on the Internet.
Adam
