US internet providers hijacking users' search queries

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Sat Aug 6 00:59:42 UTC 2011


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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