Not sure how your local legal framework works, but if you tried that in Ireland, I'm fairly certain you'd be named in a loss of earnings lawsuit by Amazon in remarkably short order...
On 20 August 2013 16:18, Elijah Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there - general call for recommendations and discussion. > > A local telephone co-op (Twin Lakes Telephone, here in TN) has begun > silently intercepting and editing amazon requests, so that they get > the affiliate/referral traffic. > > [It's pretty clear from the session traces I've seen - there's a proxy > injecting redirects upstream of customers.] > > A query to the co-op by a buddy resulted in a claim that they are > doing this "to pass savings on to their members" - which led to quite > a bit of laughter in my local social circle. > > I find this pretty unethical; my peers seem to agree. A couple of the > guys are actively calling board members this morning to 'discuss' it > with them; folks are also reporting the interception to Amazon > directly. > > [It's not just amazon, apparently - we're hearing that other services > are also being intercepted and MITM'ed under the same 'program'.] > > Thoughts, suggestions, et cetera? If I knew who the network manager > was over there, I'd probably drive over and throttle him or her..... > just for being ridiculous. > > Oh, and interestingly - this "service" seems to come and go, being > primarily enabled on weekend evenings. :) > > best, > > --e > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- Mark Dennehy
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