BT Hijacking Business Broadband "http" requests

Lil306

Got this from another forum I'm on. Thought it may be an interesting read for people here who understand it, or are considering getting BT-BB.

Basically, BT are "hijacking" Internet Browser sessions to "impose" their services onto people. People are annoyed because it comes across as unprofessional for client facing businesses and because for IT people it's messing up the backup jobs they run overnight...

http://btb.lithium.com/t5/Broadband-and-internet/HTTP-request-hijacking/td-p/12631

kwikbreaks

BT have past phorm for this sort of behaviour

I wonder if they have crossed enough palms with silver to avoid prosecution.

bonzer

Reminded me of the same thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorm#BT_trials

Hopefully they'll eventually learn people don't want their Internet meddled with.

TimothyEBaldwin

kwikbreaks wrote: »

BT have past phorm for this sort of behaviour

I wonder if they have crossed enough palms with silver to avoid prosecution.

Operators of public wireless hotspots have also avoided prosecution under the computer misuse act - for using captive portals. I never authorised them to configure my computer to use non-functioning router, to forge IP packets, nor change all the tabs in Firefox to their website.

RobTang

TimothyEBaldwin wrote: »

Operators of public wireless hotspots have also avoided prosecution under the computer misuse act - for using captive portals. I never authorised them to configure my computer to use non-functioning router, to forge IP packets, nor change all the tabs in Firefox to their website.

I think you pretty much did when YOU connected to THEIR unsecured wireless network.

and connected to a network doesn't automaticly imply your getting an internet connection either.

DVardysShadow

I see that one of the customers is saying that he will cancel at the end of his term. I think that this is actually a detrimental change to the service and grounds to move away immediately without penalty.

It is not professional of BT to do such a thing and in my eyes it is totally foolish, because they will no longer be perceived as having a professional capability.