[Gllug] Aaaaarrrggghhh!!!! I need a working ISP

- Tethys tethys at gmail.com
Tue Dec 30 11:50:13 UTC 2008


On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Anthony Newman
<anthony.newman at ossified.net> wrote:

>> Secondly they subscribe to the Internet Watch Foundation's banlist
>> which caused them to start diverting all port 80 traffic to
>> wikipedia's IPs to be hijacked by a malicious squid proxy that blocked
>> access to this page;
>
> I think you'll find all large consumer ISPs are now doing this to some
> extent, and and not already doing so will be doing so soon

That sounds like an excellent reason to avoid all large consumer ISPs to me...

Tet

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