On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Will Dean <w...@willscorner.net> wrote: > > On Sep 24, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I think actually.. earthlink uses barefruit? (or they did when ... >> kaminsky was off doing his destruction of the dns liars gangs...) >> Maybe the same backend is used though for the advertizer side? >> (barefruit provides the appliance, some third-party is the >> advertiser/website-host... same for paxfire?) >> > > Barefruit was just for returning a search engine result for a NXDOMAIN > response.
ah, paxfire does the same... > > It appears Earthlink is now using Paxfire to sniff and proxy a users traffic > to at least one popular website. Besides the obvious privacy implications, it > introduces a nice captcha on Google. hrm, they could simply use the appliances to answer: "www.google.com -> jomax.net-ns-answer" which is a frontend simply 30[24]'ing off to the jomax-esque site... Oh, you get the captcha though via earthlink? that sucks :( -chris
