Re: About Port Forwarding, Apache and Firewall Rules

["Jeremiah Cornelius" <jeremiah () nur net>]

> [snip]
> > Due to the limitation of my cable ISP, which blocks
> > ports 80 I could not make my personal website
> > available. The workaround is to ...
> [snip]
> >
>
> ...a group of people dedicated to the establishment and enforcement
> of network security and policies for help in violating his ISP's Terms
> Of Service.

His "Terms of Service" are a minor contract, and may well have been 
unilaterally ammended by the ISP after he became a customer.  This has 
happened in hundreds of reported incidents - especially with cable 
operators, who understand a television broadcast model.

I don't think there is much of an ethical dilimma in helping this fellow 
out, as long as he is aware that he is risking his service.

If, in his locale, he can't get an equivalent ISP without such an onerous 
restriction, then his ISP is likely an illegal monopoly.  They block the 
ability to serve port 80?  They are out of RFC compliance in providing 
Internet services.  You probably can't get an uneducated court to agree - 
but I'd claim that what they are providing doesn't meet the definition of 
"Big-I" Internet, and are guilty of contratual bad-faith and 
misrepresentation.



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