On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Oren Levin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/7/11 12:10 PM, Joe Provo wrote: >> >> This is finally something new, and I retract my assertion that the new >> scientist got it wrong. Drilling through to actual evidence and details, >> rather than descriptions which match previous behavior, we have both >> http://www.usenix.org/event/leet11/tech/full_papers/Zhang.pdf (a little >> indirect with 'example.com', etc) and >> http://www.payne.org/index.php/Frontier_Search_Hijacking (with actual >> domains) provide detail on the matter. Cheers! Joe > > I noticed that the payne.org link calls out the insertion of an Amazon > affiliate code. Section 7 of the Amazon affiliate agreement > (https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/agreement) appears to > explicitly prohibit payment for this type of traffic.
interesting, one wonders if maybe amazon will 'do the right thing' (much like they did with wikileaks?) and remove the account's access.
