Can ISPs be trusted?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:34:59 -0700,
  "Daniel B. Thurman" <dant at cdkkt.com> wrote:
> On 10/09/2009 12:36 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 
> > If you have residential cable or dsl from the local duopoly they
> > are quite likely to be messing with you. They may provide DNS with bogus
> > TTLs, send RST packets intended to break bitorrent connections, throttle
> > traffic based on deep packet inspection rather than say, just volume, screw
> > things up with hidden proxies that make unwarranted assumptions about your
> > traffic, returning bogus DNS records instead of NXDOMAIN, changing inflight
> > http responses to insert ads, tracking or helping others track what websites
> > you use for marketting purposes.
> >   
> Uh huh, that and much, much more than we can dream or
> think about, after all, blackbox operations are 'classified',
> and way, way ahead of civilian technology. Or so I think.

The above descriptions were actual things ISPs have done. They don't do them at
the behest of government, they do them for money. Either they are trying to
skimp on infrastructure, sell ads or sell marketting data.