[ NNSquad ] Re: Google Hijacked -- Major ISP to Intercept and Modify Web Pages

[Cliff Sojourner <cls@employees.org>]

Brett Glass wrote:
> Mr. Smith:
>
> If you know how the Internet Protocol works, you should know that
> EVERY device which routes an IP packet changes it. It puts its
> own MAC address on the outgoing packet, and also changes the
> "time to live" field. It may also change other portions of the
> packet as appropriate.
>   
... appropriate to change the header (envelope) as required for delivery 
- but never appropriate to change the payload (contents).  that's how IP 
works.

maybe we can nail the offending ISPs this way:  either they are common 
carriers, and required to pass all payload bits unchanged; or they are 
not common carrier and thus responsible for ALL illegal content that 
passes through their wires.

can't have it both ways.

> --Brett Glass
>
>
> 	[ Brett, Joshua specifically said *content*.  The issue
>           is changing what's inside the truck without the permission
>           of the shipper or final addressee, not the changing of
>           tires or other truck parts along the road as necessary
>           to reach the final destination.
>
>                                   -- Lauren Weinstein
>                                      NNSquad Moderator ]
>
>
>
> At 08:42 AM 12/9/2007, Joshua Smith wrote:
>  
>   
> > It's simply amazing to me that ISP's believe they have the right to
> > modify the content of what they are transporting.  Imagine if other
> > industries did something similar.  Think about a trucking company
> > modifying every piece of freight on one of their trucks.  No body
> > would argue that those actions were acceptable.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Josh Smith
> >     
>
>