[AusNOG] Web filter a runaway success: Exetel

[Andrew Cox]

Why not go skyward then?
Wind power is a currently working solution.. you'll just need a lot of 
helium to float your DC :-)
On the plus side you could make do with less air-conditioning.. it 
should be cold enough up there as is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspace - according to the sources there's 
no legally defined limit over what height you'd have to go to over a 
country.. but over unclaimed sea you could pick your own height I guess.

Food for thought / or another sci-fi movie.

McDonald Richards wrote:
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> You'll have to pay Google a licensing fee if you want to build a 
> floating DC now :)
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> http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/05/floating-data-center-patent-granted-to-google.ars
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> Macca
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> *From:* ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net 
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Colwell, Scott
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 6 May 2009 10:24 AM
> *To:* ausnog at ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Web filter a runaway success: Exetel
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> Just been to see "The Boat that Rocked".
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> Can I interest anyone in setting up a web hosting business on a ship 
> outside the
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> territorial limits?   Moor it over PPC-1 and get Bev to hook you up!
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> Scott
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>     *From:* ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
>     [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Matthew
>     Moyle-Croft
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, 5 May 2009 9:38 PM
>     *To:* ausnog at ausnog.net
>     *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Web filter a runaway success: Exetel
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>     And just so no one thinks this is a good idea:
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>     http://www.efa.org.au/2009/05/05/efa-gets-link-removal-notice/
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>     Insane and angry making.
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>     MMC
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>     Mark Newton wrote:
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>     On 05/05/2009, at 6:51 PM, Kai wrote:
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>         Mmmm, so the article doesn't tell the full story, figures, but what's
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>         the bet that certain people in certain places will use this one  
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>         article
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>         to basically say "Hey, see, the filter aint ALL bad..." :S
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>     The problem is that Peter Mancer from Watchdog has already admitted that
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>     it can't satisfy even the most watered-down of the Government's  
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>     requirements,
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>     because it can't cope with URLs hosted on high-traffic sites occupying
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>     the blacklist.
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>     Remember:  Since last year, Conroy has claimed that he wants the ACMA
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>     prohibited list to be blocked.  When the ACMA prohibited list was leaked
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>     that position became politically hilarious, so he changed his tune to
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>     "almost exclusively RC" (SBS Insight 31 March 2009), then "We've
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>     never stated that we were going to do anything other than Refused
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>     Classification" (Triple J Hack, 7 April 2009)
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>     http://newmatilda.com/polliegraph/?p=567
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>     The problem is that the Classification Board has Refused Classification
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>     to several YouTube videos, which means the ultimate "high traffic site"
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>     is on the blacklist even after Conroy has changed all the definitions.
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>     And Mancer has said that high-traffic sites will blow his system's  
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>     brains
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>     out.  Indeed, the failure mode is exactly the same (and for exactly the
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>     same reason) as the IWF Wikipedia failure in the UK in early December.
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>     Mancer's proposed solution is to whitelist high-traffic sites, so they  
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>     won't
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>     be blocked even if the Government insists that they must be.
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>     So Exetel has had a "runaway success" in testing a system which cannot
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>     satisfy the Government's requirements.
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>     Can Exetel deploy Mancer's censorbox without a Government mandate to
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>     deploy a voluntary filtering service in response to demand from their
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>     customers?  By all means, and more power to them.  Hope it works out
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>     for them.
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>     But will that meet the dictates of the Government's stated policy?
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>     Nope.  They'll need another, untested censorbox to do that.
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>        - mark
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