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Re: Tech for blocking particular YouTube video - Wired.com question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lyon)
Tue Oct 23 17:57:52 2012
From: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAAWP3=x-qm3KTP2m=iufku4oknRkh65rj5Hc5=gkPPZJTcUrfA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:57:32 -0700
To: Ryan Singel <ryan@ryansingel.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
And of course, we all know, it was the video that induced the riot... :)
-mike
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 23, 2012, at 14:53, Ryan Singel <ryan@ryansingel.net> wrote:
> A colleague is working on a story that a particular country not to be named
> implemented technology to block a particular infamous riot-inducing video
> for a certain section of its populace.
>
> The questions are: 1) how hard is this to do at scale, 2) does it require
> DPI equipment and 3) is there a way to prove, from an end node, that it's
> happening?
>
> Off-list replies are fine, even better are folks willing to talk on record.
>
> I appreciate any help you can give.
>
> Ryan Singel
> Editor
> Wired
> Threat Level
