Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Canadian ISP tests injecting content into web pages

Oh no, this story is about Rogers, and as anyone who lives in the Toronto area knows, Rogers is humble.

So they remained a famous sports landmark after themselves after they bought it, and defaced an award winning building with an oversized corporate logo.

Oh right, and then there was the reverse billng issue..and..

But anyway, Rogers would never never never think of doing something like this...

Advocates of network neutrality frequently express concerns that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will use sophisticated network filtering technologies that facilitate Deep Packet Inspection to track and modify the content of web pages as they are being served to end users.

The ability to modify Internet content at the network level could potentially be abused by ISPs to insert additional advertising into web pages or perform selective, automated censorship. Although no mainstream ISP in North America engages in such practices, proponents of network neutrality have discovered that Rogers—a Canadian cable Internet provider—is trialing similar technology to inject notices to subscribers in regular web content, leading some to fear that more abusive content manipulation may occur in the future.


Read more here, if Rogers lets you.

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