[Cialug] Remedies for Verizon Behaving Badly?

[jim kraai]

:-)



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

> 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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