BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

Thu Aug 12 15:24:05 UTC 2004

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