[133027] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: wikileaks dns (was Re: Blocking International DNS)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Fri Dec 3 12:39:21 2010
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:38:07 -0800
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> I guess the USG's cyberwar program does work (very dryly said).
It was reported in the last couple of days that Wikileaks could have =
been taken off the net but the govt decided not to do it.
As for a member of Congress pressuring Amazon, what else would one =
expect? If a site has content that the USG might see as "damaging", and =
if a US company is facilitating the distribution of that content, sure, =
I would expect members of that government to apply "pressure" but I have =
no idea what that "pressure" might have consisted of.=20
But think about it ... if someone had, for example, deep internal =
corporate confidential financial information on a company and published =
that on the web, that company might also attempt to "pressure" the =
publishing entity to stop it.
To expect someone not to "pressure" someone to remove potentially =
damaging material is probably na=EFve.
