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Anon Nam

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reply to metalhawk
Re: rogers inserting advertisements into my browser - WTF?

Rogers can force you to use Rogers' and only Rogers' DNS servers, remember that.

Providers not letting you use the SMTP server of your workplace or hosting company are far too common. Why not do the same with DNS?
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Exidor
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said by Anon Nam :

Rogers can force you to use Rogers' and only Rogers' DNS servers, remember that.
Please elaborate.
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anonymous_me

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 It's called firewalling (a) certain port(s). Or even being intrusive and peeping your traffic looking for a DNS query and blocking it by a variety of means. In this case they can claim to not infringe privacy since they (presumably) wouldn't be looking into the actual query proper. They could also block known open DNS servers.

I'm certain that other methods exist, but the above are the options that I could think of off the top of my head.
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MikeRCMP

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reply to Anon Nam
There are some advantages to this service, I was speaking to a tier 2 this afternoon on the issue.

»blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/0···age.html

»technorati.com/posts/d8RJnCKdA97···i6zbE%3D

By altering content, they are no longer "common carriers" and are legally responsible for all content they convey, including kiddie porn and terrorist plots...

»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Cab···_content
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