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."
That's not a privacy concern... (Score:4, Insightful)
... that's a fucking computer crime.
Re:That's not a privacy concern... (Score:4, Insightful)
No no no, big corporations did this, it's just a privacy concern ^_^