[AusNOG] Australian senate passes controversial anti-piracy, website-blocking laws

[Matt Palmer]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 09:48:29PM +1000, Shain Singh wrote:
> On 23 June 2015 at 20:59, Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au> wrote:
> >  This would be the logical, un-obtrusive way (in terms of implementation)
> > to take effect, however it is easily bypassed (say setting 8.8.8.8 as your
> > computers DNS), and if the ISP is further expected to help control that
> > issue.
>
> The general populace is not so tech-savvy... and even you probably can't
> control ALL devices you browse/surf web with.
> 
> I think that is a moot point as it's easy to hijack port 53 traffic going
> across your network (have a search on Google for ISPs that interfere with
> NXDOMAIN traffic to serve their own pages for example on NANOG list).

I, for one, applaud this Government's steps to encourage the adoption of
DNSSEC.

- Matt

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