5 Aug
2011
5 Aug
'11
9:14 p.m.
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 05:04:51PM -0700, Bino Gopal wrote:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20768-us-internet-providers-hijacking-...
It is more than slightly misleading to say "hijacking search queries"; paxfire is evil as it hijacks dns and breaks NXDOMAIN and they've been doing that for ages. The user behavior of searching in the address bar has become more common place, and browser behavior to try and resolve first, fallback to search for the same input field has both trained the humans to keep doing this and made it possible for DNS query interlopers to appear to be generic-search interlopers. -- RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE / NewNOG