[176451] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transparent hijacking of SMTP submission...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sat Nov 29 15:18:16 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: 29 Nov 2014 20:17:45 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <m2k32ehvaj.wl%randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
>i think of it as an intentional traffic hijack. i would be talking to a
>lawyer.
If the lawyer says anything other than that 47 USC 230(c)(2)(A)
provides broad immunity for ISP content filtering, even if the filters
sometimes screw up, you need a new lawyer.
Filtering STARTTLS on port 587 is pretty stupid, but not everything
that's stupid is illegal.
R's,
John
PS: I know enough technical people at Comcast that I would be
extremely surprised if it were Comcast doing this. There's plenty not
to like about the corporation, but the technical staff are quite
competent.
