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cogman10last Saturday at 1:07 AM2 repliesview on HN

Sure, but that's ultimately a pretty unlikely attack vector. An attacker still needs to exploit some unknown vulnerability of your web browser in order to get something malicious going.

I basically expect that sort of attack to only be pulled off by a state actor or by a black hat convention for the lolz.


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nine_klast Saturday at 2:05 AM

ISPs used to inject ads into HTTP-served pages as recently as 10 years ago, I personally remember that. Not only tiny ISPs. I'm not alone: https://superuser.com/questions/902635/isp-is-inserting-ads-...

Ads injection is a relatively benign kind of tampering. It could be much more creative and sinister.