Cox Communications Adds Code to Web Traffic to Announce Email Outage
December 16th, 2012This means that they can flick a switch and make sites display anything they want. Any ISP could do this, in theory, but this shows that Cox Communications has built it.
Countermeasures?
* Use HTTPS, when available (assuming your ISP isn’t running equipment made by Packet Forensics)
* Run a persistent VPN to some exit node that you think might not be compromised
* ?
* Turn off your computer, tend your garden, make plonk…
Via: Slashdot:
An anonymous reader writes “Cox Communications appears to be injecting JavaScript and HTML into subscriber’s traffic, as part of their effort to announce an email service outage. Pictures showing the popup.”
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