| Jeff Abrahamson on 8 Apr 2004 23:31:02 -0000 |
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A correspondent asks: > When you go to a hotel or hotspot or generally somewhere where > you're renting an IP connection for X time, they often do annoying > things like redirect your browser to their web page periodically, or > to start, etc. I've seen it happen even when the browser was in the > middle of loading a different page - it gets hijacked. > > My question is: how does that work? How do they do that? Is there a > way to defeat it? I have not found an adequate answer for him. Anyone know how this works? His interest concerns switching to a low-cost DSL provider that he is afraid may do such things. (He could ask, of course, and he may agree in his contract with them not to subvert it. But that's a different issue than how it's done.) -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B A cool book of games, highly worth checking out: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931686963/purple-20 Attachment:
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