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Widespread Hijacking of Search Traffic in the United States

62 points| Phoenix26 | 14 years ago |eff.org

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[+] daemonize|14 years ago|reply
This says a lot about the ISP's ethics if they are shown to be consenting to this. One thing I didn't see in the EFF article is something a user could do about it: use SSL! This may eventually force these companies into more nefarulious and active techniques of hijacking, but it should alleviate the basic technique they are employing now, if i am not mistaken.
[+] osivertsson|14 years ago|reply
From the EFF article:

"And the best protection against the privacy and security risks created by this type of hijacking is to visit sites using HTTPS rather than HTTP, which can easily be achieved using EFF's HTTPS Everywhere Firefox extension"