[Cialug] Mediacom fscking with web access?

[Todd Walton]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Jonathan C.
Bailey<jbailey at co.marshall.ia.us> wrote:
> It looks like they've turned it off already, so I wasn't able to check. They also weren't
> sniffing by port. I connected to a proxy of mine on an odd numbered port (proxy is
> hosted on a VPS), and it still figured it out. I can understand the DNS redirects.
> They're annoying, but easy for a user with knowledge to bypass. But "editing" content
> that comes back to me? That just goes too far.

If Mediacom is redirecting 404s, then perhaps they figure on backlash,
and want to use it to get people to say "maybe DNS error redirects
aren't so bad".

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Todd