On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Oren Levin <lists@pinetree.net> wrote:
On 8/7/11 12:10 PM, Joe Provo wrote:
This is finally something new, and I retract my assertion that the new scientist got it wrong. Drilling through to actual evidence and details, rather than descriptions which match previous behavior, we have both http://www.usenix.org/event/leet11/tech/full_papers/Zhang.pdf (a little indirect with 'example.com', etc) and http://www.payne.org/index.php/Frontier_Search_Hijacking (with actual domains) provide detail on the matter. Cheers! Joe
I noticed that the payne.org link calls out the insertion of an Amazon affiliate code. Section 7 of the Amazon affiliate agreement (https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/agreement) appears to explicitly prohibit payment for this type of traffic.
interesting, one wonders if maybe amazon will 'do the right thing' (much like they did with wikileaks?) and remove the account's access.