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Cox Comm. Injects Code Into Web Traffic To Announce Email Outage

Posted by timothy on from the sorta-clever-but-only-sorta dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Cox Communications appears to be injecting JavaScript and HTML into subscribers' traffic, as part of their effort to announce an email service outage. Pictures showing the popup."

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  1. Is this News? by omega6 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Providers have been doing similiar things for a while...If you want security, use https.

    1. Re:Is this News? by DarkTempes · · Score: 4, Informative

      You can use noscript or any adblock addon to block this.

      Look for something like <script src="http://184.178.98.*/static/FloatingContent/243/floating-frame.js" type="text/javascript"></script> in the head.
      Craft rules as appropriate.

    2. Re:Is this News? by Grishnakh · · Score: 2, Informative

      No, they don't. They might use FedEx to ship their Priority Mail flat rate boxes, but the final door-to-door delivery is done by the USPS. In my experience, Priority Mail is usually one day faster than First Class, and much, much faster than either FedEx or UPS Ground.

      In addition, UPS has a service where USPS does the final residential delivery.