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Very nicely done: reporting this as abuse to the companies offering these affiliate programs seems quite appropriate, and it sounds like they reacted appropriately. One person complaining to an ISP is noise; one person making an abuse report is all it takes to get that ISP banned from the affiliate program.
Eric, I am very sorry to see this happen to you. Unfortunately more and more companies are using our data for marketing purposes. All is not lost though. There are several ways you can protect yourself from these practices. The first thing I would do is get a router capable of using dnscrypt-proxy ( http://www.opendns.com/technol... . Then you can be confident that your DNS traffic is not being modified by your ISP.…
> It does require that you have trust in a 3rd party DNS provider like OpenDNS ... The same OpenDNS that hijacks NXDOMAIN responses?
Cox does something similar but bypasses the the DNS records and just slipstreams in a response. I noticed Cox would redirect javascript requests to their own HTTP server and put in their own snippets, effectively doing mass javascript injection. The snippet ended up being some sort of alert about upcoming maintenance, but using a malicious technique for a benign purpose is the path to the dark side. Use HTTPS! (I use…
Comcast also injects JavaScript into HTML responses if they feel the need to send you a message. Here's the code they use: https://gist.github.com/ryankearney/4146814 And here's my (extremely short) writeup on it: http://blog.ryankearney.com/2013/01/comcast-caught-intercept...
Here it goes: Behind a ISP-wide cache. Any 'traceroute' passes by transtelco.net (ISP used to have their own infraestructure for voip services Megafon) now i have 5/6? DNS jumps! and all my traffic going to Transtelco. traceroute to news.ycombinator.com (198.41.191.47), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 customer-GDL-**-***.megared.net.mx I don't know how normal or ethic is this type of cache. No download limits, I have…
Tampering with the data, however, is not OK at all. In the U.S. I believe it may make the ISP exempt from for example the safe harbor clauses in the DMCA.
Here it goes: Behind a ISP-wide cache. Any 'traceroute' passes by transtelco.net (ISP used to have their own infraestructure for voip services Megafon) now i have 5/6? DNS jumps! and all my traffic going to Transtelco. traceroute to news.ycombinator.com (198.41.191.47), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 customer-GDL-**-***.megared.net.mx I don't know how normal or ethic is this type of cache. No download limits, I have…
As long as they don't tamper with the data I think an HTTP cache is perfectly OK. HTTP has loads of built-in mechanism for that kind of caching. It saves bandwidth upstream, not least for website owners, and may make your web browsing speed faster if the proxy is good. Tampering with the data, however, is not OK at all. In the U.S. I believe it may make the ISP exempt from for example the safe harbor clauses in the D…
Here it goes: Behind a ISP-wide cache. Any 'traceroute' passes by transtelco.net (ISP used to have their own infraestructure for voip services Megafon) now i have 5/6? DNS jumps! and all my traffic going to Transtelco. traceroute to news.ycombinator.com (198.41.191.47), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 customer-GDL-**-***.megared.net.mx I don't know how normal or ethic is this type of cache. No download limits, I have…
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> It does require that you have trust in a 3rd party DNS provider like OpenDNS ... The same OpenDNS that hijacks NXDOMAIN responses?
Only for the unregistered accounts IIRC. Can't you disable it after going thought the simple registration and claiming of IP address?
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As long as they don't tamper with the data I think an HTTP cache is perfectly OK. HTTP has loads of built-in mechanism for that kind of caching. It saves bandwidth upstream, not least for website owners, and may make your web browsing speed faster if the proxy is good. Tampering with the data, however, is not OK at all. In the U.S. I believe it may make the ISP exempt from for example the safe harbor clauses in the D…
Some of the big content providers like Netflix are even reportedly making caching deals for their content. Both the content provider and the ISP get better performance and less exterior bandwidth.
Here it goes: Behind a ISP-wide cache. Any 'traceroute' passes by transtelco.net (ISP used to have their own infraestructure for voip services Megafon) now i have 5/6? DNS jumps! and all my traffic going to Transtelco. traceroute to news.ycombinator.com (198.41.191.47), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 customer-GDL-**-***.megared.net.mx I don't know how normal or ethic is this type of cache. No download limits, I have…
Your traceroute doesn't show that you're behind a cache, just that your ISP uses transtelco.net for IP transit; at least to the destinations you tried.