<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Better stop this branch of this thread now, as it's likely going to explode with opinions about pros/cons of filtering, click to view evidence of crimes, governments deciding what is good for their citizens, governments filtering out bad political news, governments objecting to bad news in the press about the NBN, Big brother, Auslog, and nazis hiding on the moon.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"></div><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Steve Lisson <SteveL@dedicatedservers.net.au><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Phillip Grasso <phillip.grasso@gmail.com>; Joshua D'Alton <joshua@railgun.com.au> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog@lists.ausnog.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 12 April 2013 3:10 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re:
[AusNOG] Understanding lack of Aus connectivity to melbournefreeuniversity.org.<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv950994778"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv950994778WordSection1"><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hi,</span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">It is very easy to say ‘bad government’/LE/etc’ without knowing the facts, also hard to implement blocking while being transparent without making a public list of sites that people would then visit. (e.g. give a list of sites you should not visit to the general user, how many would then visit those sites just from being told they should not?)</span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">
</span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Transparency is a nice ideal, but would having a public list of ‘bad sites’ also not also a bad idea? I see no way of resolving that issue between people who are for & against filtering. It cannot be public so we unfortunately have to have some trust in someone somewhere. Maybe some knowledge on who is doing this and why may allow some trust in that source to be increased? (currently it’s a black helicopter with MIB kind of arrangement which doesn’t work)</span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">All I can see is that it must be very hard to filter web traffic
without using transparent proxies or DPI (first I think users don’t want, 2<sup>nd</sup> that is expensive for the ISP, could be wrong, I’m not involved in doing either).</span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">DNS filtering may be in cases ineffective, how many web hosts provide a <ip>/~<site> address for ‘temporary’ access that is always available, if that was being used DNS filtering would not have any impact. As everyone else seems to be guessing I am just putting another guess out there. I doubt there would be a block unless there was a legitimate reason and very highly doubt the block is ‘political’.</span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I personally am on the fence about filtering, leaning more towards it being in place in a basic form (DNS filtering sounds good to me, with IP filtering if avoided of that is attempted) to protect us from some of the absolutely awful stuff that is out there on the internet.</span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">While for myself personally I would prefer not to be filtered, it’s not just about me, I have a daughter (as many other Australian’s have children) and I have the knowledge to setup my own filters to
protect her; but also know that other people who will be allowing her access to the internet do not have those skills to do so.</span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">If filtering was abused it would be bad, but doubt our government would get away with it without the majority of us knowing, just look at how much of a stink this one occurrence has caused! With how connected we are we would find out about it in other ways such as news in other countries and if that was filtered there would certainly be an uproar!</span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Steve</span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Phillip Grasso<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 12 April 2013 2:09 AM<br><b>To:</b> Joshua D'Alton<br><b>Cc:</b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Understanding lack of Aus connectivity to melbournefreeuniversity.org.</span></div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"> </div><div>If government interception was involved any parties cooperating wouldn't be able to say anything. Why won't the end user
move another service and see if the block follows them.</div><div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal">On 11/04/2013 12:38 PM, "Joshua D'Alton" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:joshua@railgun.com.au" target="_blank" href="mailto:joshua@railgun.com.au">joshua@railgun.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(221, 238, 238); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">**<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ford.com/">ford.com</a></span></div><div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"> </div></div><div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well theres the culprit... ;)<br></span><br>The sad thing is the real culprit site has more than likely already moved to another IP, leaving all these legit sites up the
creek. It's the piracy/DRM argument all over again :(</div><div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal">On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Simon Lyall <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:simon@darkmere.gen.nz" target="_blank" href="mailto:simon@darkmere.gen.nz">simon@darkmere.gen.nz</a>> wrote:</div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal">1. Works from New Zealand<br><br>2. There is a list of websites hosted on that IP at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sameid.net/ip/198.136.54.104">http://sameid.net/ip/198.136.54.104</a> . However they obscure the first two characters of each domain. Skimming though it nothing really jumped out. A fairly high number of Australian sites, all boring stuff:<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.clanfraser.org.au/">www.clanfraser.org.au</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.tradecoastproperties.com.au/">www.tradecoastproperties.com.au</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://www.fromholtz.com.au/">www.fromholtz.com.au</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.brunswickplace.com.au/">www.brunswickplace.com.au</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bluewaterdeliveries.com.au/">www.bluewaterdeliveries.com.au</a><br><br>I keep expecting to find a Queensland dentist..<span style="color:#888888;"><br><br>-- <br>Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/">http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/</a><br>"To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.</span></div><div><div><div class="yiv950994778MsoNormal"><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>AusNOG mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
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