You thought it was just your local ISP messing with your HTTP traffic

[Steve Kinney]

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On 04/04/2016 05:04 PM, Rayzer wrote:
> From February this year:
> 
> Website-Targeted False Content Injection by Network Operators 
> Gabi Nakibly1,3, Jaime Schcolnik2, and Yossi Rubin3
> 
> 1 Computer Science Department, Technion, Haifa, Israel 
> 2Computer Science Department, Interdisciplinary Center, 
> Herzliya, Israel 3Rafael – Advanced Defense Systems, Haifa,
> Israel
[...]
> 
> www.arxiv.org/pdf/1602.07128v1.pdf

Inadvertent (?) geek humor:

~/Desktop $ wget http://www.arxiv.org/pdf/1602.07128v1.pdf
- --2016-04-05 13:36:35--  http://www.arxiv.org/pdf/1602.07128v1.pdf
Resolving www.arxiv.org (www.arxiv.org)... 128.84.21.199
Connecting to www.arxiv.org (www.arxiv.org)|128.84.21.199|:80...
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.07128v1.pdf [following]
- --2016-04-05 13:36:36--  http://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.07128v1.pdf
Resolving arxiv.org (arxiv.org)... 128.84.21.199
Reusing existing connection to www.arxiv.org:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2016-04-05 13:36:36 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

Apparently they like the user agent string from Firefox better; I
did get a copy of the article via the said browser.



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