[Cialug] Remedies for Verizon Behaving Badly?

[Matthew Nuzum]

gah, that is "https isn't being touched"

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> I can confirm that http isn't being touched (or wasn't as of last week). I
> tested this with my personal iPad (t-mobile) - nothing affected, my smart
> phone (sprint) - nothing affected and work iPad (verizon). The iPad has the
> headers injected for http only and only when using the 3g/lte service. If I
> use wifi nothing gets injected, if I use https nothing gets injected.
>
> This makes sense, because if it were messing with https then you'd
> essentially be breaking the Internet. You'd get warnings and the site
> verification badges would break.
>
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:59 PM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd recently dropped PIA for VPN Unlimited on the price deal.
>>
>> Verizon still doesn't play nicely with VPN Unlimited on my phone.  Talking
>> w/ their customer service about it, but I'm pretty sure it's Verizon's
>> NAT'ing issue that's also been grumbled about by other people wanting to
>> use VPNs.
>>
>> Because of this ongoing VPN problem, I was hoping to hear here something
>> along the lines of using a proxy that stripped those headers out of the
>> traffic.
>>
>> The other thing I haven't confirmed is whether https traffic is also being
>> mangled.  I can't set up a secure web server to dump incoming headers for
>> a
>> definitive answer at the moment.  Anyone have a phpinfo page exposed on a
>> secure server that I can point at?  :-)
>>
>> --jim
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Andrew Denner <linux-list at upeke.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I have had luck with VPN Unlimited (https://www.vpnunlimitedapp.com)
>> it is
>> > not free, however there is a special running at stack socal right now
>> for 3
>> > years worth of VPN for $19 (
>> >
>> >
>> https://stacksocial.com/sales/vpn-unlimited-premium-plan-3-years-of-hacker-protection-more
>> > )
>> >
>> > I had gotten it for the international connections aspect of the service
>> but
>> > it puts an end to verizon being verizon.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I can verify for certain that PIA does prevent this problem with AT&T.
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Ron Houk <houk.ron at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > I heard about this on Security Now
>> > > https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-479-notes.pdf
>> > > > .
>> > > >
>> > > > They're claiming that it is At&T as well as Verizon.  The eff
>> article
>> > > says
>> > > > that even Straight Talk an mvno of Verizon (and AT&T) is affected.
>> I'm
>> > > > using Straight Talk on AT&T GSM network and am not (yet) affected.
>> > > >
>> > > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > Unless something recently changed, PIA works from Verizon phones.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com
>> >
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > > > > I believe this provider works with Verizon phones:
>> > > > > > https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Inexpensive, fast, and allows connecting from computer and
>> phone at
>> > > > same
>> > > > > > time.
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