[73092] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Thu Aug 12 11:24:54 2004
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:54:05 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0408121505220.312@sharpie.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>
> this happens today in many countries....
> 1) france and the 'yahoo nazi site'
> 2) state of PA (usa) and child porn sites
> 3) panama and blocking of VOIP traffic
>
> there are quite a few more, and yes, it's not too pretty ;(
Prof Jonathan Zittrain and Ben Edelman at Harvard's Berkman Center for
Internet & Society have documented several such instances at
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/ - Ben has presented at at least
some netops conferences about this as well.
suresh
