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ISP Inserting Content Into Users' Webpages
geekmansworld, among other readers, lets us know that the Canadian ISP Rogers is inserting data into the HTTP streams returned by the Web sites requested by its customers. According to a CBC article, Rogers admits to modifying customers' HTTP data, but says they are merely "trying different things" and testing the customer response.
replace "trying different things" with "seeing what we can get away with" and your closer to the truth
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Even better, the CBC article concludes with a reference to the Telecommunications Act, which states that "a Canadian carrier shall not control the content or influence the meaning or purpose of telecommunications carried by it for the public."
Rogers has a long history of playing as dirty as it can get away with. If the old pattern repeats as before, Canadian regulators will respond and Rogers will be forced to back down, leaving everyone -- regulators, investors, competitors, consumers -- slightly more pissed off with it than before.
Parity: What to do when the weekend comes.
You may not know this, but "Rogers" is already synonymous with "taking it up the arse" up here in Canada. After all, who else charges $210/month for 500MB of wireless data transfer? Or creates a 3G broadband network but refuses to allow actual 3G phones to access it (restricting you to this huge BRICK of a wireless "modem" they provide you)? Or raising their prices almost 30% in the last 2 years?
I just wish someone like Google or Microsoft sues Rogers into oblivion for this crap. I'm pretty sure impersonating another corporation's official communications (loading the Google homepage, for example) is fraud.