4chan and att DO READ

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com>
Date: July 27, 2009 8:32:30 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] NOT the whole story: a comprehensive time line of  
4chan and att

This is hardly the whole story, Dave.  I'd be interested in how AT&T  
managed to block *only* certain parts of 4chan's web content.   Since  
DNS routing does not depend on the characters after the "/" in a URL  
in *any* way, the site's mention that AT&T was blocking only certain  
sub-"directories" of 4chan's content suggests that the blocking  
involved *reading content of end-to-end communications".

If AT&T admits it was doing this, they should supply to the rest of  
the world a description of the technology that they were using to  
focus their blocking.  Since AT&T has deployed content-scanning-and- 
recording boxes for the NSA in its US-based switching fabric, perhaps  
that is how they do it.  However, even if you believe that is  
legitimate for the US Gov't to do, the applicability of similar  
technology to commercial traffic blocking is not clearly in the domain  
of acceptable Internet traffic management.


On 07/27/2009 06:41 AM, David Farber wrote:
> The whole story djf
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Joly MacFie <joly () punkcast com>
> Date: July 27, 2009 3:12:23 AM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
>
>
> According to
> http://www.centralgadget.com/att-blocking-access-to-portions-of-4chan-2336/
> access has been restored
>
> Archives        




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