Internet Surveillance and Boomerang Routing: A Call for Canadian Network Sovereignty

Mon Sep 9 14:43:12 UTC 2013

That notwithstanding, it's stupid to send traffic to/from one of the large $your_region/country incumbents via $not_your_region/country.  It's just not good Internet.  You make enough money already.  Be a good netizen.  It pays more in the long run and that's all you're really after for your shareholders anyway, right?

On 2013-09-08, at 11:54 AM, Derek Andrew <Derek.Andrew at usask.ca> wrote:

> The topic of Canadian network sovereignty has been part of the Canadian
> conscience since the failure of CANNET back in the 1970s.
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> Canadians citizens, on Canadian soil, already supply feeds directly to the
> NSA. Rerouting Internet traffic would make no difference.
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> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster at mykolab.com>wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> "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."
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>> http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/media_law_prof_blog/2013/09/routing-internet-transmission-across-the-canada-us-border-and-us-surveillance-activities.html
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>> Cheers,
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>> - ferg
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>> Paul Ferguson
>> Vice President, Threat Intelligence
>> Internet Identity, Tacoma, Washington  USA
>> IID --> "Connect and Collaborate" --> www.internetidentity.com
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