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Interestingly coincidental with Malcolms post about boingboing is this: http://corp.sonic.net/ceo/2011/08/11/the-five-levels-of-isp-evil/ and a /. discussion here: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/08/13/1953200/The-Five-Levels-of-ISP-EvilI'm not sure any UK ISPs are actually engaging in any of this though (although the BT/Phorm thing was doing it for a while)
And a while-back we were talking about open Wi-Fi access points too - for a B&B, etc... While I was on holiday a couple of weeks back, I did stay in places which had free Wi-Fi. The code was printed on the room guide/brochure... I really don't think any of them had thought about security or mis-use of it. (Because most people who use B&B's are "nice" people? :)
I'm also running a public hot-spot myself now as part of a trial project I'm working on, and while I am force-proxying/caching http traffic, as yet, that's all I'm doing, and it's only for performance reasons (30-60% hit-rate too - although I'm also throttling non well-known traffic to stop p2p users swamping the meagre 3G backhaul links I have)
But big UK ISPs mangling/altering/redirecting traffic? Is it worth it? Invest in more hardware to change traffic than more hardware to make traffic flow faster? Hmm... Most of those five evils seem to be aimed at advertising revenue - maybe there's more to advertising than meets the eye...
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