Are you referring to “I fought my ISP's bad behavior and won”[1]?
If so, in that case the ISP altered DNS results to point to its own HTTP server and redirect to the real one with a modified URL. SSL would have helped a bit, but the first problem is that DNSSEC isn't more widespread.
If so, in that case the ISP altered DNS results to point to its own HTTP server and redirect to the real one with a modified URL. SSL would have helped a bit, but the first problem is that DNSSEC isn't more widespread.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6992897