Sky parental control system blocks code.jquery.com

Post by csmithuk » Mon, Jan 27, 2014, 6:12 PM UTC

Cor wrote: post #61

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If it's unusable, tell them and say you will stop paying for it as it doesn't live up to their advertising. Your rights are protected outside the contract. Threaten to complain to Ofcom if they resist. They'll let you leave and give you the MAC code. I'm in London and my exchange has Sky LLU support. Coincidentally I live in the same postcode as Sky HQ so any problems, I'll talk face to face with them as I have some…

I did ring technical support to get the issues fixed last Thursday -- apparently a higher level technician will call me back within '10 working days'. Hmm. I'm not trapped by a 12 month contract, which is why I'm not too annoyed about the situation. My cabinet will get fibre fitted early next month, so I should only have to endure Sky for another month or two thankfully, which is ok by me.

Post by MichaelGG » Mon, Jan 27, 2014, 6:25 PM UTC

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Perhaps the parents should spend some time with their children and show them what is appropriate and what is not? I have three children, all of whom use the Internet regularly and bar some passive monitoring, I've done nothing. They have healthy browsing habits. Blacklists, censorship, firewalls and control are missing the point... Plus you're going to get goatse'd at some point in your life...

> Perhaps the parents should spend some time with their children and show them what is appropriate and what is not? Kids will already know this, the question is whether they still wish to push their luck if they think they can get away with it. If they're anything like me, then they will :) So I wouldn't trust my kids with an unfiltered internet any more than I'd give them satellite / cable TV in their rooms before a…

Post by cma » Mon, Jan 27, 2014, 7:20 PM UTC

jowiar wrote: post #56

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> Why would anyone use code.jquery.com, really? Because webmasters would rather compromise the security and integrity of their site, and the privacy of their users, than pay for the initial burst of bandwidth and latency for first time visitors. jQuery 2.1.0 production, minified and gzipped is still over 30KiB, compared to this thinkbroadband page which is only 6 KiB (and yes this page uses about half a dozen externa…

This strikes me as something that, without a lot of thought, will expose a user's browsing history (similar to the old "check the visited link color" attacks). Insert script links with a hash, check to see if the browser makes a request.

Post by anglebracket » Mon, Jan 27, 2014, 9:11 PM UTC

jowiar wrote: post #56

nly wrote: post #7

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> Why would anyone use code.jquery.com, really? Because webmasters would rather compromise the security and integrity of their site, and the privacy of their users, than pay for the initial burst of bandwidth and latency for first time visitors. jQuery 2.1.0 production, minified and gzipped is still over 30KiB, compared to this thinkbroadband page which is only 6 KiB (and yes this page uses about half a dozen externa…

This strikes me as something that, without a lot of thought, will expose a user's browsing history (similar to the old "check the visited link color" attacks). Insert script links with a hash, check to see if the browser makes a request.