Am 06.07.2016 um 15:26 schrieb Jim Reid:
>> Yes, I would blame my ISP for that. That's something I wouldn't expect as a 
>> customer 
> 
> Better check the small print of your contract with the ISP. Unless you’re 
> living in a banana republic, your ISP will very likely be complying with laws 
> that prevent access to illegal content. That generally means deploying things 
> like DPI and policy-based DNS rewriting. Whether or not ISPs deserve to be 
> blamed for that is another matter.

"Do not do illegal stuff with your internet connection" and "We will hijack 
your DNS requests (and maybe other services, too) just to make sure you don't 
do illegal stuff" are two completely different things.
Of course, the contract with my ISP (in my case Deutsche Telekom) contains 
paragraphs that make me fully liable to anything I do with my internet 
connection, including
illegal file sharing, hacking attacks or whatever. But they won't finger in my 
data traffic.
The worst thing that can happen to you is that they block port 25/TCP on your 
connection if you're sending SPAM.

And on the other hand: As soon as the ISP proves that he is capable of 
transparently manipulating my internet traffic, this would lead to the big 
question: 
Could I ever be liable for anything I've allegedly done on my internet 
connection? Or was it done by my ISP who manipulated my traffic?
That'd be an interesting question if you are in front of a judge...

And as Sander Steffann pointed out: Privacy laws are prohibiting this kind of 
data analysis and manipulation in many european countries.



Greetings
 Max

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