It's sadly not all that unusual: http://corp.sonic.net/ceo/2011/08/11/the-five-levels-of-isp-evil/
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20768-us-internet-providers-hijacking-users-search-queries.html?full=true ISPs have done this and similar in the past, users made a noise and it suddenly stopped happening. It's not the first, and it's almost certainly not the last time we'll see it unless someone successfully carries this all the way through court *and* a large amount of noise is made about it along the way. Paul On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 01:06:58PM -0600, Alan Robertson wrote: > The interesting question is how many other ISPs are doing this... > > > On 08/20/2013 11:25 AM, Ed wrote: > > File a DMCA complaint, have the proxy taken down and involve Amazon - > > post to Slashdot and write a letter to you congress critters. oh and > > the local paper too. Complain to the agency that regulates monopolies > > in your state - even if they don't regulate ISPs yet. > > > > Swear a wiretap complaint against the the staff and management of the > > ISP. use the word RICO. > > > > I don't know if anything will stick - it looks like you will have to > > vpn out of your ISP if you want to avoid being their bitch. > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Michael Tiernan > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Derek Balling <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> 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. > >> That seems to be a truly optimistic view. Do you think that they'd > >> actually know what you're talking about and/or mean? > >> (I don't know, that's why I'm asking.) > >> > >> -- > >> << MCT >> Michael C Tiernan. > >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/mtiernan > >> Non Impediti Ratione Cogatationis > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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/ > > > -- > Alan Robertson <[email protected]> - @OSSAlanR > > "Openness is the foundation and preservative of friendship... Let me claim > from you at all times your undisguised opinions." - William Wilberforce > _______________________________________________ > 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/
