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Re: Comcast censors the Bible
From: rms () computerbytesman com
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:30:39 -0400 (EDT)
I don't see the malware connection here. Comcast's P2P traffic blocking is designed to either cut down on network usage or to placate Hollywood. Richard
I think Sonny still brings up a good point about it being a slippery slope. By turn over the responsibility of Malware filtering to the ISPs, who has oversight? These are commercial entities not necessarily following any industry standard or government requirements - they make up their own rules and with them comes inconsistency and, potentially, outright censorship. I agree that blocking is a powerful means of forcing awareness through the potential loss of business and interruption in services but I think there needs to be some sort of happy medium such as an industry fostered and supported standard - not all these arbitrary blacklists and ISP-specific pick-and-choose block rules... On 10/19/07, Young, Keith <Keith.Young () montgomerycountymd gov> wrote:As mentioned before, this is the only way to get ISP senior management attention towards "fixing" infected hosts.-- B.K. DeLong (K3GRN) bkdelong () pobox com +1.617.797.8471 http://www.wkdelong.org Son. http://www.ianetsec.com Work. http://www.bostonredcross.org Volunteer. http://www.carolingia.eastkingdom.org Service. http://bkdelong.livejournal.com Play. PGP Fingerprint: 38D4 D4D4 5819 8667 DFD5 A62D AF61 15FF 297D 67FE FOAF: http://foaf.brain-stream.org _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Comcast censors the Bible Brian Loe (Oct 19)
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