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Let’s not forget to include Belkin among the companies that have attempted variations of this. In this case, it was their wireless router which would grab a random out-going request and serve up advertisements instead. Imagine being in the middle of buying plane tickets and suddenly finding yourself at a random advertisement.

https://www.geek.com/news/belkin-routers-misdirect-users-to-...



cheap router manufacturers have been doing dumb things for a long time:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/




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