Re: More cases of ISP google Hijacking...

interesting observation, ta.
A.

On 9/24/2011 12:14 PM, Joseph L. Brunner wrote:
> Please review this link -
>
> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/widespread-search-hijacking-in-the-us
>
> Many ISP's are redirecting your google.com DNS result to the IP Address of
> their "Paxfire" proxy server - effectively letting them record EVERY search
> term you Google for marketing or other invasive reasons.
>
> This happens because most home users just use their ISP's DNS servers and
> don't think twice. I noticed this yesterday when Google refused to do any
> searches for me and a Google "captcha" came up (where you have to type in all
> the crazy letters to proceed) and gave a warning that my IP was sending many
> searches to Google (an IP, that traced back to DataPipe in San Jose, CA) and
> they had to make sure I was not a "virus or a bot" to use google.com.
>
> Well I did some research... Instead of giving you the local search results or
> Google banner ads - ISP's are trying to get their PAID SPONSORS on to the
> results page. This could also be used to harvest information for marketing
> reasons "John in Hoboken likes Kung fu Films and trips to Thailand", etc.
>
> The way to defeat this privacy invasion - make sure your home router has 3
> neutral DNS servers that will not redirect your google.com session to the
> third party proxy (and these 3 are served via dhcp to your home subnet)
>
> 8.8.8.8 (google's open dns)
>
> 8.8.4.4 (google's open dns 2)
>
> 205.171.3.65 (Qwest business DNS resolver, doesn't seem to proxy the
> google.com A record)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Joe Brunner
>
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