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How about an internet provider injecting tracking scripts and advertisements into HTTP responses; an internet provider failing to respond correctly to DNS reque
by warfangle 12y ago
How about an internet provider injecting tracking scripts and advertisements into HTTP responses; an internet provider failing to respond correctly to DNS requests (so they can provide their own search engine on mistyped domains)? Both of these things have been done by ISPs - and recently.
I'd consider that comparable to a utility pumping sewage.
- nickff 12y agoI'd consider that equivalent to a utility not chlorinating the supply, or having sediment issues; both are unexpected and undesired behaviors which can be corrected. I do not understand the desire to compare problematic internet service to sewage-pumping through the potable water supply. Are you desperate for superlatives which will make the internet service providers look bad?
- warfangle 12y agoDo you understand what happens when DNS returns false negatives? It causes tons of shit to break. It's not a little bit of sediment. Maybe not sewage level catastrophe .. maybe "your water supply is contaminated for the foreseeable future. You can't drink it, not even boiling it will help, but you can continue to wash your clothes in it."