Widespread Hijacking of Search Traffic In the US 194
Peter Eckersley writes "The Netalyzr research project from the ICSI networking group has discovered that on a number of U.S. ISPs' networks, search traffic for Bing, Yahoo! and sometimes Google is being redirected to proxy servers operated by a company called Paxfire. In addition to posing a grave privacy problem, this server impersonation is being used to redirect certain searches away from the user's chosen search engine and to affiliate marketing programs instead. Further analysis is available in a post at the EFF."
Re:That didn't take long (Score:4, Funny)
Works fine for me. I just won 2 free $250 Walmart Pirce club cards and I get 20% off my next purchase of a HiPhone 5 Nano from Somy. Pretty exciting.
Re:Use HTTPS (Score:5, Funny)
I do not know a single person who runs a proxy at home.
You should get out more, or stay in more. I'm not sure which one applies here.