Comment BT/UK Gov't doing the same thing (Score 1) 94
I used to be a BT Openworld subscriber here in the UK. They also had a "transparent proxy" running. I freely sent all my data in cleartext until one day their connection to the US went down, and every time I tried to access any sites in the US, it spat back a proxy error at me. So I setup my own squid server in Ireland and routed all my traffic securely through there.
I phoned up the support line and got some slimy "technician" who claimed nothing was wrong. I told him his proxy server was spitting back errors at me, to which he replied he didn't think they had any proxy servers and were my proxy settings ok.
So he put me onto his "manager" who told me I wasn't supposed to know about the proxy and he'd look into it. That was the last I heard of it, 10 minutes later they'd fixed it.
I phoned up the support line and got some slimy "technician" who claimed nothing was wrong. I told him his proxy server was spitting back errors at me, to which he replied he didn't think they had any proxy servers and were my proxy settings ok.
So he put me onto his "manager" who told me I wasn't supposed to know about the proxy and he'd look into it. That was the last I heard of it, 10 minutes later they'd fixed it.
