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Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:23:12 -0500
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 03:49:44PM -0700, pashdown wrote:
In the end the bill itself doesn't have a big impact on this ISP's business. We have used Dansguardian for many years now along with URLblacklist.com for our customers that request filtering. The fact that its lists and software are open for editing and inspection is the reason I chose this over other commercial methods.
What is the plan -- if any -- to deal with the hosting of the porn sites on the computers of the people who they're supposed to be blocked from? What I'm referring to is the occasional spammer tactic of downloading web site contents into a hijacked Windows box ("zombie") and then using either redirectors, or rapidly-updating DNS, or just plain old IP addresses in URIs to send HTTP traffic there. This seems to be a tactic of choice on those occasions when the content is of a dubious nature: kiddie porn, warez, credit card numbers, identity theft tools, that sort of thing. Even *detecting* such things is difficult, especially when they're transient in nature and hosted on boxes with dynamic IP addresses. So how is any ISP going to be able to block customer X from a web site that's on customer X's own system? Or on X's neighbor Y's system? Oh...and then we get into P2P distribution mechanisms. How is any ISP supposed to block content which is everywhere and nowhere? ---Rsk
Current thread:
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill, (continued)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill Michael . Dillon (Mar 23)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill Geo. (Mar 23)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Mar 23)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill Steven J. Sobol (Mar 23)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill Scott Call (Mar 23)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill Barry Shein (Mar 23)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill pashdown (Mar 22)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill Richard Irving (Mar 22)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill Randy Bush (Mar 22)
- the gateway of delight (was Net-porn bill) Lucy E. Lynch (Mar 22)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill Rich Kulawiec (Mar 23)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill Petri Helenius (Mar 23)
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- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill Jay R. Ashworth (Mar 23)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill Owen DeLong (Mar 22)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill Steven J. Sobol (Mar 22)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill joshua sahala (Mar 22)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill William Allen Simpson (Mar 22)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Mar 22)
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- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill Daniel Senie (Mar 22)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill Simon Lyall (Mar 23)
- Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill Petri Helenius (Mar 23)