ISPs will never use this, or any other filtering software for the simple reason that once they begin filtering, they are no longer a "Common Carrier". Being a common carrier protects them from being sued for having kiddie porn or Windows transmitted over their network. If they start filtering for DDOSs, they will have to filter everything else also.
According to this link, MOSR will accept anybody's word as a "reliable source." Some guy wrote in and claimed he had more details, and within hours, his comments were posted.
This has some interesting ramifications for Apple's legal team's policies. It means they just arbitrarily threaten anything that gets any publicity on the net, thereby drawing no distinction between rumors that are true and rumors that arent. I guess they really have two choices. It's clear that they cant treat true posts differently than false ones, thereby lending credence to some of them, so they either have to threaten everyone they notice or nobody at all. I guess threatening everybody makes them feel important and useful to the rest of apple.
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ISPs will never use this, or any other filtering software for the simple reason that once they begin filtering, they are no longer a "Common Carrier". Being a common carrier protects them from being sued for having kiddie porn or Windows transmitted over their network. If they start filtering for DDOSs, they will have to filter everything else also.
According to this link, MOSR will accept anybody's word as a "reliable source." Some guy wrote in and claimed he had more details, and within hours, his comments were posted.
This has some interesting ramifications for Apple's legal team's policies. It means they just arbitrarily threaten anything that gets any publicity on the net, thereby drawing no distinction between rumors that are true and rumors that arent. I guess they really have two choices. It's clear that they cant treat true posts differently than false ones, thereby lending credence to some of them, so they either have to threaten everyone they notice or nobody at all. I guess threatening everybody makes them feel important and useful to the rest of apple.