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Re: OT: Inserting Ads without breaking the SSL


From: Andrew van der Stock <vanderaj () greebo net>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:00:15 +1000

Check out Marketscore - a spyware/trojan type of thing is installed on the user's PC and intercepts SSL. That's why all the major banks in the region (Australia and NZ) block customers who are infected with this "acceleration tool".

thanks,
Andrew

On 22/04/2006, at 4:03 AM, Saqib Ali wrote:

This is a little bit off-topic. But I need to solve this mystery:

Recently a provider in Santa Clara, CA started to provide free Wifi
service. The only catch is that they insert Adds on the webpage see:
http://www.metrofi.com/advertisers.html (screenshot at the very bottom).

This does not require installation of any software. So seems to me
their proxy is somehow modifying the HTML webpage to add the Ads.

I would like to find out how this is done so that the intergrity of a
SSL enabled page is not lost.

Thanks

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