Widespread Hijacking of Search Traffic in the United States

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/widespread-search-hijacking-in-the-us

by Phoenix26 • 15 years ago

62 18 15 years ago

daemonize2• 15 years ago

This says a lot about the ISP's ethics if they are shown to be consenting to this. One thing I didn't see in the EFF article is something a user could do about it: use SSL! This may eventually force these companies into more nefarulious and active techniques of hijacking, but it should alleviate the basic technique they are employing now, if i am not mistaken.

osivertsson• 15 years ago

From the EFF article:

"And the best protection against the privacy and security risks created by this type of hijacking is to visit sites using HTTPS rather than HTTP, which can easily be achieved using EFF's HTTPS Everywhere Firefox extension"

daemonize2• 15 years ago

You're right, sry. Was on my mobile and must have glossed over that. Next time I will RTFA fully.

pnathan2• 15 years ago

My understanding is HTTPS only encrypts the content of the page, not the actual URL request.

(And it's worth noting that proxies can unwrap HTTPS).

abraham2• 15 years ago

Encrypted Search for Google: https://encrypted.google.com/

If you use Chrome a quick way to add it as a search engine: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lcncmkcnkcdbbanbja...

Widespread Hijacking of Search Traffic in the United States

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