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Vodafone Portugal absolutely does MITM your internet connection. I've seen it myself. I was in Portugal last summer, and my family had a Vodafone 3G wifi hotsp
by Kronopath 9y ago
Vodafone Portugal absolutely does MITM your internet connection. I've seen it myself.
I was in Portugal last summer, and my family had a Vodafone 3G wifi hotspot. I noticed that on every single non-https webpage, Vodafone was inserting a banner with a huge load of JS, as part of their "Vodafone Secure Net" "feature"(https://securenet.vodafone.com/ https://securenet.vodafone.com/). They inserted their own code on every request to make sure that they could display a banner telling you whether or not a website was "trustworthy".
I managed to figure out the complicated steps to do on their systems to turn this "feature" off, but between that and some other bad experiences I've had with them I still don't trust them in the least.
- dazc 9y agoSame in Spain also.
- Natsu 9y agoInjecting JavaScript into someone's pages for "security" sounds like one of the very worst ways to go about improving security. I'm surprised I haven't heard of that injection being hacked to do very bad things yet.
- Torn 9y agoIf you can MITM the connection, you can just do it server-side, which is far more insidious. This was done in the UK + Brazil a few years back -- some ISPs (including British Telecom) trialled it without even telling affected customers that they were being snooped on! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8438461/BT-and-Phorm-how-an-online-privacy-scandal-unfolded.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8438461/BT-and-P... https://phonecallsuk.co.uk/bt-webwise.html https://phonecallsuk.co.uk/bt-webwise.html
- Arnt 9y agohttp://toroid.org/vodafone-smtp-mitm http://toroid.org/vodafone-smtp-mitm too.
- ptype 9y agoI have the same in the UK
- Gys 8y agoThey charge something like 1.10 per month for this ‘security check’. So it seems mainly a revenue motivated thing. Very persistent as well; they tend to turn it on after every contract period.