Niels Voll wrote:
wow - interesting indeed - it's the first time I've heard of such a port grab at network level. Interesting privacy implications...
thanks again!
...Niels
This type of stuff actually happens quite often, but due to the nature of how it is done, you rarely realize it is happenning. Transparent HTTP proxies are probably the most common method of this. You would be very surprised at how many of the webpages you download do not actually get served from the webserver, but a caching proxy stuck on the Telus or Shaw network, and possibly networks in between. Akamai has made a boatload of money doing precisely this.
Ian.
Curtis Rempel wrote:
I too have seen that behavior, but in this case, no additional software has been installed and no proxy existed prior.
Curtis
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