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Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK)
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:05:20 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
Its more than null routes, but not much more. The router does a re-route on a list of network/IP address, and then for the protocols the redirector box understands (i.e. pretty much only HTTP) it matches part of the application/URL pattern.That's a cool way to implement monitoring of traffic towards random parts of the internet.
There are much easier, cheaper ways to do that.And as another person pointed out, the IWF method is not very surreptitious so the bad guys can tell someone found them and
can improve their methods. And did I mention the false positive problem of click-fraud and embedded IMG URLs accessing those sites too. Yes, your computer may have been recorded accessing a bad site when you read a spam mail.
Current thread:
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK), (continued)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Chris L. Morrow (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Matthew Palmer (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Leigh Porter (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Florian Weimer (Jun 08)
- RE: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) michael.dillon (Jun 07)
- RE: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) michael.dillon (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Sean Donelan (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Chris L. Morrow (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Sean Donelan (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Sean Donelan (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Leigh Porter (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) William Allen Simpson (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Deepak Jain (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Simon Waters (Jun 08)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Chris L. Morrow (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Sean Donelan (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) Leigh Porter (Jun 07)
- Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) for people who cant be bothered to read the article.. Leigh Porter (Jun 07)