[Operational] Internet Police

Thu Dec 9 18:52:04 UTC 2010

And if I ever find the genius who came up with the "we are not the
internet police" meme ...

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<ops.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's put it this way.
>
> 1. If you host government agencies, provide connectivity to say a
> nuclear power plant or an army base, or a bank or .. .. - you'd
> certainly work with your customers to meet their security
> requirements.
>
> 2. If you are a service provider serving up DSL - why then, there are
> some governments (say Australia) that have blacklists of child porn
> sites - and I think Interpol came up with something similar too.  And
> yes there's CALEA and a few other such things .. not much more that's
> new.
>
> Separating rhetoric and military metaphors will help you see this a
> lot more clearly.  As will not dismissing the entire idea with
> contempt.
>
> As a service provider for anything at all, you'll see your share of attacks.
>
> Whether coordinated by 4chan or by comrade joe chan shouldnt really
> matter, except at the level where you work with law enforcement etc to
> coordinate a response that goes beyond the technical.  [And ALL
> responses to these are not going to restrict themselves to being
> solvable by technical means].
>
> --srs
>
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Michael Smith <michael at hmsjr.com> wrote:
>> How is "what to block" identified?  ...by content key words?  ..traffic
>> profiles / signatures?  Deny all, unless flow (addresses/protocol/port) is
>> pre-approved / registered?
>>
>> What does the technical solution look like?
>>
>> Any solutions to maintain some semblance of freedom?
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)
>

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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)