[165533] in North American Network Operators' Group
Internet Surveillance and Boomerang Routing: A Call for Canadian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Sat Sep 7 17:09:03 2013
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:08:31 -0700
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <522AEB22.8010007@internetidentity.com>
Reply-To: fergdawgster@mykolab.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
A Canadian ISP colleague of mine suggested that the NANOG constituency
might be interested in this, given some recent 'revelations', so I
forward it here for you perusal.
"Preliminary analysis of more than 25,000 traceroutes reveals a
phenomenon we call ‘boomerang routing’ whereby Canadian-to-Canadian
internet transmissions are routinely routed through the United States.
Canadian originated transmissions that travel to a Canadian destination
via a U.S. switching centre or carrier are subject to U.S. law -
including the USA Patriot Act and FISAA. As a result, these
transmissions expose Canadians to potential U.S. surveillance activities
– a violation of Canadian network sovereignty."
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/media_law_prof_blog/2013/09/routing-internet-transmission-across-the-canada-us-border-and-us-surveillance-activities.html
Cheers,
- ferg
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Paul Ferguson
Vice President, Threat Intelligence
Internet Identity, Tacoma, Washington USA
IID --> "Connect and Collaborate" --> www.internetidentity.com
