Belkin Routers Route Users to Censorware Ad

The Register has a story today about Belkin routers redirecting their users' network traffic. To me, this seems like the logical next step after top-level domain name servers piping ads to your browser. Now the routers themselves hijack the traffic they are supposed to, uh, route -- and you'll love where they send you instead. But it's OK because you can opt out. Incidentally, the Crystal Ball Award goes to Seth Finkelstein, who in 2001 quoted John Gilmore's famous aphorism about the internet, and asked "What if censorship is in the router?"

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In other words...

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Belkin knowingly chose to hijack an HTTP query *WITHOUT THE USER'S PRIOR PERMISSION* to facilitate sales of their product.

Thank you for admitting that Belkin spams and steals. That made it very easy to remvoed Belkin from our Corporate purchase program.