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Manipulation by ISPs
A number of consumer ISPs such as Cablevision's Optimum Online,[2] Comcast,[3] Time Warner, Cox Communications, RCN,[4] Rogers,[5] Charter Communications, Verizon, Virgin Media, Frontier Communications, Bell Sympatico,[6] UPC,[7] T-Online,[8] Optus,[9] Mediacom,[10], ONO[11] and Bigpond (Telstra)[12][13][14][15] use DNS hijacking for their own purposes, such as displaying advertisements[16] or collecting statistics. This practice violates the RFC standard for DNS (NXDOMAIN) responses,[17] and can potentially open users to cross-site scripting attacks.[16]
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DN ··· ijackingThough I found a way to supposedly opt out of this "feature," when did OOL start with this?
oops, nothing new apparently, but I looked at this article and became concerned:
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Paxfire, RCN Sued For Snooping