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| Canadian ISP Hijacking DNS Lookup Errors                           |
|   from the both-hands-in-the-cookie-jar dept.                      |
|   posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 19, @12:18 (The Internet)   |
|   http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/19/158208 |
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[0]Freshly Exhumed tips us to news that Canadian ISP Rogers Cable appears
to be [1]redirecting invalid DNS requests to their own search and
advertising page. Roadrunner got caught doing the same thing [2]earlier
this year. According to the article, “The hijacking appears to be an
attempt by Rogers to use its Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology to
cash in on the mistakes of its users.” Freshly Exhumed also reminds us,
“As IOActive security researcher Dan Kaminsky has [3]warned in the past,
this presents a very serious security problem.”

Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/07/19/158208

Links:
0. http://www.user.dccnet.com/jonleblanc
1. http://www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/2689/206/
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/26/1741253&tid=95
3. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/isps-error-page.html