[133048] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wikileaks dns (was Re: Blocking International DNS)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Lyon)
Fri Dec 3 14:05:56 2010
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0B14CCDB@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 14:05:50 -0500
From: Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
For the record, I would never remove a customer because a congressman
or senator asked for it, however, I would deny service to persons with
outstanding felony warrant(s).
Jeff
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:38 PM, George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com> wrote:
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>> I guess the USG's cyberwar program does work (very dryly said).
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> 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.
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> As for a member of Congress pressuring Amazon, what else would one expect=
? =A0If a site has content that the USG might see as "damaging", and if a U=
S company is facilitating the distribution of that content, sure, I would e=
xpect members of that government to apply "pressure" but I have no idea wha=
t that "pressure" might have consisted of.
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> But think about it ... if someone had, for example, deep internal corpora=
te confidential financial information on a company and published that on th=
e web, that company might also attempt to "pressure" the publishing entity =
to stop it.
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> To expect someone not to "pressure" someone to remove potentially damagin=
g material is probably na=EFve.
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