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Re: US internet providers hijacking users' search queries
From: Joe Provo <nanog-post () rsuc gweep net>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 21:14:00 -0400
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 05:04:51PM -0700, Bino Gopal wrote:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20768-us-internet-providers-hijacking-users-search-queries.html
It is more than slightly misleading to say "hijacking search queries"; paxfire is evil as it hijacks dns and breaks NXDOMAIN and they've been doing that for ages. The user behavior of searching in the address bar has become more common place, and browser behavior to try and resolve first, fallback to search for the same input field has both trained the humans to keep doing this and made it possible for DNS query interlopers to appear to be generic-search interlopers. -- RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE / NewNOG
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- Re: US internet providers hijacking users' search queries Brielle (Aug 05)
- Re: US internet providers hijacking users' search queries Paul Graydon (Aug 05)
- Re: US internet providers hijacking users' search queries Mark Andrews (Aug 05)
- Re: US internet providers hijacking users' search queries Owen DeLong (Aug 06)
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- Re: US internet providers hijacking users' search queries Brielle (Aug 05)
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- Re: US internet providers hijacking users' search queries Damian Menscher (Aug 06)
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