On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 02:46:17PM +0530, Gautam John wrote: > > DNS hijacking. > > And I suppose it's entirely legal for them to do?
I personally find it unacceptable, and would terminate my contract if it wasn't so easily circumventable (my cable provider does it, and in fact links user portal use to their DNS service -- which is why I can't use their portal, not that it means missing much). Inasmuch it is legal, it depends on your terms of service, and what a lawyer would say, and whether you would be willing to take them to court over it.</ianal> > > Use alternative DNS servers (OpenDNS, but change the default > > behaviour) or run your own caching DNS server (I do, at home). > > Thanks At this point in time you can consider your ISP a hostile party, or at least accomplices to Mallory. Not only to they sniff and log, some of them have started actively manipulating traffic. The only way to circumvent that is to build up a VPN to a remote (v)server in a decent jurisdiction and route all your traffic through it. OpenVPN is probably a good suggestions, though IPsec and STunnel might also be suitable. Apart from that, Tor (with end to end encryption) is also a good idea, at least for those services that work through Tor.
