US internet providers hijacking users' search queries

Sat Aug 6 02:17:17 UTC 2011

Search engines are the ones that are paying for this redirection. Most of
the companies that approached us about this technology partner with Yahoo
for their error monetization. They want the eyeballs that come from
redirecting these mistyped URIs.

-Bradford Chatterjee

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I'd rather someone start making a blacklist of ISPs  that "inspect and
> modify packets"  in transit
> through their network  in any way  ( other than TTL decrementing ),   so
> search engines could collectively
> identify these ISPs and  choose to require  _all_  connections from them be
> over SSL.
>
>