Re: Another use for DNS spoofing or DPI

Francis Davey wrote:
> On 31 March 2010 16:17, Igor Mozolevsky <mozolevsky@...> wrote:
>   
>> So in that case barring some statutory requirement and given that
>> there probably no clause as to the integrity of the traffic, and that
>> BT's t&cs effectively say if you ask one of our servers for something
>> don't rely on it's response, you are saying that the too bad for the
>> small business that just got done over by BT's "innovation"?
>>     
> No, I am saying nothing of the sort. Quite the reverse: I think its
> highly likely that it is an implied term of the contract that BT does
> not deliberately cause internet connections - in this case HTTP
> requests - to fail, giving the wrong data in response. That would mean
> that BT would be in breach of contract and liable for damages that
> followed (subject to any limitation clauses, themselves subject to
> statutory and other controls on such things).
Good.

Just happened to have had a BT sales person on the phone today, and one 
of the things he wanted to talk to me about was moving my internet 
access to BT (I already have backup access via PlusNet, which is one of 
theirs, so he could not make progress there - and I didn't waste time 
talking about the subject of this thread either).

Peter