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Chinese ISPs Caught Injecting Ads And Malware In Their Network Traffic (thehackernews.com)
Chinese Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have been caught red-handed for injecting advertisements as well as malware through their network traffic. Three Israeli researchers uncovered that the major Chinese-based ISPs named China Telecom and China Unicom, two of Asia's largest network operators, have been engaged in an illegal practice of content injection in network traffic. Chinese ISPs had set up many proxy servers to pollute the client's network traffic not only with insignificant advertisements but also malware links, in some cases, inside the websites they visit. If an Internet user tries to access a domain that resides under these Chinese ISPs, the forged packet redirects the user's browser to parse the rogue network routes. As a result, the client's legitimate traffic will be redirected to malicious sites/ads, benefiting the ISPs.
See? We're not so different after all!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
China eh? Always trustworthy.
Glad all of our electronics aren't manufactured there right?
HTTPS everywhere please.
"Three Israeli researchers uncovered that the major Chinese-based ISPs named China Telecom and China Unicom, two of Asia's largest network operators, have been engaged in an illegal practice of content injection in network traffic".
As a matter of interest, what laws does this contravene? If it happens in China, isn't it a matter for Chinese law? And is it likely that the Chinese government, which is often said to monitor all network traffic assiduously, would fail to notice such practices?
Also, I am doubtful about taking the word of Israeli researchers on such a matter. Israel, like the USA, has been deeply involved in hacking, spying, mass surveillance and even the insertion of (no doubt "illegal" an certainly extremely damaging) viruses such as Stuxnet. Presumably people who would engage systematically in such activities would not be beyond falsifying research findings.
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
The major Chinese ISPs are the major telecom providers. Aren't those State owned?
Would anyone really have the guts to complain to the government.
1- High price for ads is a good thing.
2- The "Almighty GOOG" does not "inject" ads. It puts them where the original site owner tell they should be placed, in exchange for money.
3- Ad injection/replacement by ISPs is the worst. The ad provider and most importantly the content owner lose money and you still see ads. And unlike with ad-blockers you can't turn it off if you want to support the site you are visiting. The ISP shouldn't serve you ads, you already pay it with money.
I lived in China for a number of years, and this has been going on for a long time now (at least, with my ISP China Unicom). Absolute PITA, but that pretty much describes most online experiences in China (with the exception of Taobao, which is head and shoulders above Ebay).
Point out flashy, animated, noisy, malware ridden ads from google please. Goggle may not be innocent, but they ar far, far, from the worst offender in this realm.
Silence is a state of mime.
In 2008 while deployed to Afghanistan I noticed many sites displaying as corrupted and started digging. Turns out the internet service provided for personal use by troops was subject suffering from this. The service (which we paid for) was satellite service operated on the base by Indian Nationals but was routing through Chinese internet providers and every url served had a script injected. I complained, and raised the security concerns but it was never fixed. It was clumsily done so no-script blocked the injected script and my websites started displaying properly again. But I didn't really have the time or resources to dig further.
I'm too lazy to compose a creative sig.
The ISP shouldn't serve you ads, you already pay it with money.
That doesn't stop Hulu.