NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Re: Google Hijacked -- Major ISP to Intercept and Modify Web Pages
Joshua Smith wrote: > ...Imagine if other > industries did something similar. Think about a trucking company > modifying every piece of freight on one of their trucks. No body > would argue that those actions were acceptable. An alternate view, if I may.... Imagine if American Airlines attached an AA tag to every piece of luggage they carried.... This is the way the carriers will play it; happens all the time, and to non-technical people this will make sense. Slashdot carried a similar story back in 2003: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/07/1740205 "The router would grab a random HTTP connection every eight hours and redirect it to Belkinâs (push) advertised web page." If I recall correctly, the senior person responsible for making this decision was eventually fired. But it did leave me with the impression that even the relatively clued techno-geeks at slashdot had problems understanding what the issue was. -- Steve Holton sholton@mindspring.com