This seems like it goes beyond the level of interception and modification of traffic that is technically necessary to handle traffic. In other words, it sounds like the various provisions which would protect them from prosecution as a carrier do not apply here.
Might be worth simply contacting your nearest FBI office, and saying "I have reason to believe someone is doing a man in the middle attack on my e-commerce traffic with Amazon" and let them handle it from there. D On Aug 20, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Elijah Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there - general call for recommendations and discussion. > > A local telephone co-op (Twin Lakes Telephone, here in TN) has begun > silently intercepting and editing amazon requests, so that they get > the affiliate/referral traffic. > > [It's pretty clear from the session traces I've seen - there's a proxy > injecting redirects upstream of customers.] > > A query to the co-op by a buddy resulted in a claim that they are > doing this "to pass savings on to their members" - which led to quite > a bit of laughter in my local social circle. > > I find this pretty unethical; my peers seem to agree. A couple of the > guys are actively calling board members this morning to 'discuss' it > with them; folks are also reporting the interception to Amazon > directly. > > [It's not just amazon, apparently - we're hearing that other services > are also being intercepted and MITM'ed under the same 'program'.] > > Thoughts, suggestions, et cetera? If I knew who the network manager > was over there, I'd probably drive over and throttle him or her..... > just for being ridiculous. > > Oh, and interestingly - this "service" seems to come and go, being > primarily enabled on weekend evenings. :) > > best, > > --e > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
