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a request for help in an experiment from UW and UCB
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:51:00 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska () cs washington edu> Date: July 24, 2007 1:27:06 PM EDT To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: Ed Lazowska <lazowska () cs washington edu> Subject: For IP? Dave, Would you be willing to post this to IP in order to help UW and Berkeley collect some web data? It's a bit on the edge for IP, but it's a good cause. About a month ago, there was a Slashdot story about a Texas ISP that was generating revenue by injecting ads into web pages accessed by its customers. To figure out how widespread this practice is, UW and Berkeley have put together some infrastructure that serves Web pages including scripts that check the page integrity once it arrives at the Web browser. If your ISP is inserting content on the pages you're viewing, then visiting the UW/Berkeley site will detect this, letting you (and the researchers) know. So it's a service for the visitor to the page, and it's a data point for the researchers. We're trying to get as many people as possible to visit the web page -- each visit is simultaneously a measurement point for us and does a nice service for the visitor. Here's a digg story about the project: http://www.digg.com/security/Are_ISPs_modifying_your_web_pages and here's the link to the measurement page -- visiting this page is ***safe*** and determines whether your ISP is inserting content: http://vancouver.cs.washington.edu ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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