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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. Nice single point of attack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just compromise Cox's servers, and deliver your payload. Very blackhat friendly.

  2. My ISP does this for far worse reasons. by damnbunni · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I use Millenicom, who resells Sprint, and in my area Sprint started injecting JavaScript into every page that comes over HTTP to recompress all the jpegs to a much lower quality setting.

    That, at least, I could block. Now they just recompress all jpegs that come over http to a horrible level. If I want to keep the internet from looking like ass, I have to use a secure tunnel. Which is obnoxiously slow on 3G.

    (Unfortunately, there's nothing Millenicom can do about it. It's up to Sprint. And there's no opt-out.)