Consumer ISP tirade
October 6, 2009 – 12:05 pmLast year sometime, I discovered through my day-job that Qwest DSL was hijacking DNS queries for non-existent domain names, and redirecting them to a search page. For my day-job, this problem manifests itself as employees being unable to access corporate resources even when connected to VPN. After about 3 seconds of troubleshooting (isn’t vnc great?), I found this: This innocent looking page is actually quite bad… It has many implications – for starters, Qwest is almost certainly making money on this page, due to the search traffic. The privacy aspects are chilling – who knows what information Qwest is passing along to Yahoo (the search provider), or what information they’re storing about what domains you mis-type (or what domains you type correctly, so they can advertise more accurately when you do make a mistake). The whole thing scares the willies out of me. Thankfully, there’s a clever link in the upper right ...