Various services have been doing ad-injection for at least five years so not new - first noticed it around 2006. In fact, there are wordpress utilities that do ad injection for bloggers. The bad stuff will probably not come until you click on the 'extra' banner. Some easy notebook mitigation to do while traveling:
1. Run only chrome or mozilla FF 2. turn off JS and cookies 3. carry your own router (firewall settings for MAC filter, without default SSID, etc). 4. run Linux on trips (easy dual-boot setup, see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win32-loader_%28Debian%29> Also note that a router will probably eat most of a data-line surge before your notebook's ethernet port sees it. Routers are cheap compared to the computer. Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Doug Smith Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 10:01 AM To: Si-List; emc-pstc Subject: ad code injection? Hi All, I just found a disturbing trend used by some Internet providers, especially ones in places like hotels. That being injecting code in to any web page visited. As you know, I do not accept advertising for others on my website http://emcesd.com but you may see ads I have not put there. Below is a clip from an article on blogs.nytimes.com and a link to the full article. If you ever see an ad on my website from someone else, can you please capture a screen shot and send it to me? I do not use annoying techniques, like blinking banners, on my web page, in fact it is just flat html with out even javascript. I try to make my site as informative to engineers as possible without flashy banners and such. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/courtyard-marriott-wifi/ " On its Web site, a company called RG Nets, which makes Revenue eXtraction Gateway, explains that its system rewrites every Web page on the fly so that it can include a banner ad. As you can see, the pervasive nature of the advertising banner on all Web pages guarantees banner advertising impression, a narrator says in the video." I am late this month on my Technical Tidbit because of my move from Silicon Valley to Boulder City, NV, where I am at the moment. Doug - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]>
