Re: [PLUG] wireless networks, web browsing, and forced pages

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Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

> 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.)

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