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Widespread Hijacking of Search Traffic In the US

Posted by Soulskill on from the par-for-the-course dept.

Peter Eckersley writes "The Netalyzr research project from the ICSI networking group has discovered that on a number of U.S. ISPs' networks, search traffic for Bing, Yahoo! and sometimes Google is being redirected to proxy servers operated by a company called Paxfire. In addition to posing a grave privacy problem, this server impersonation is being used to redirect certain searches away from the user's chosen search engine and to affiliate marketing programs instead. Further analysis is available in a post at the EFF."

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  1. That's not a privacy concern... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... that's a fucking computer crime.

    1. Re:That's not a privacy concern... by GameboyRMH · · Score: 3, Insightful

      No no no, big corporations did this, it's just a privacy concern ^_^

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      "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel