The method has been around for decades indeed, but it isn't economical to doing it on a large scale. But things are slowly changing, it seems, in the right direction.
Since there are already some legislations out there going in the right direction (California, Washington DC, Nevada,...) why don't they just "borrow" the text from another state ?
Good points. And to extend it further, trust what ? You can verify with route-maps that a AS_PATH starts with or contains your neighbours' ASN but this is about what we can do.
The whole idea of authentication is dull anyway. Who needs P2P authentication when you know the hassle that one has to go through to get and maintain a peering agreement with a Tier1/2 service provider ? And of course, BGP neighbours are manually setup by the remote party. So it's not like you can suddenly take control of internet routers and modify the peering points or anything..
So typically black that you can hardly see a thing ! Frankly I wouldn't have been told in advance that this was supposed to mimic Helm's Deep, I would never have figured out.
...is that hard drives consistently hold more and more information, and whenever someone predicts this is the end of the road some major breakthrough launches another cycle good for 10-years or so. All in a similar form factor over time, and even getting smaller eventually.
At the same time the price of hard drives and RAM keep falling to record low. Nowadays it is routine to have 1GB of RAM and 100's GB for hard drives, soon we will be counting in TB.
Really it was no wonder that IDC predicted traffic will continue to increase. How could it be otherwise !!! In this view, perhaps the LOC will become the basic term for bandwidth/storage in the long run ?
Making an ISP ultimately responsible for all content hosted on their servers is ridiculous.
Agreed.
...Is that "tough" for them as well?
Now we're going into the implementation of this thing... I am assuming that an intelligent clause just doesn't blackhole every ISP server, but restricts the barring to the one site w/ child porn, just like you suggest (Instead, an ISP should be forced to remove questionable materials from their servers). Basically we are saying the same thing I guess, perhaps I am less skilled at wording my ideas properly in the first place:)
because geocities knows the contents of EVERY site on their servers.
Yes, they ought to. If they see borderline or right down illegal stuff, I don't see a problem with them enforcing the agreement binding their users to their operating policy. And if they prove themselves incapable to do so, I don't see a problem either in someone else (big brother) to "assist" them.
..."the court ordered blocking may prevent access to legitimate sites that are hosted on the same server"
Tough. If they are they hosting "legitimate" sites as long as their kiddies porn, they get what they deserve. Perhaps they will think twice next time, or at least keep the kiddy porn stuff where it belongs (to/dev/null).
I'm typing this in Mozilla as we speak.... Gecko-based browsers are becoming popular (and more populous also w/ deals such as AOL adopting Gecko), so imho it's still a bit early to call the browsers battle lost just yet !
I see what they're trying to do, but so what if we do detect an asteroid the size of Texas headed straight at us ? (Armageddon or Deep Impact, anyone?)
I doubt that there will be anything significant that we will be able to do except predict the end of the world, and you bet that I'll be quitting my job then!:)
The announcement was made on January 23, and it's nice to see things moving along. Cisco's announcement has a lot more details than the article reported today.
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So I'm young, white, christian, male and straight (sex. orientations) and except for a pair of glasses I am otherwise perfectly able. Do I stand a chance to get qualified ?:)
The article begins with: "..has developed an encryption technology that appears to be unbreakable." (emphasis mine).
Like every other encryption mechanism known to man today, it's just a matter of time before it can be broken.
The real question is to understand the value of your data during a finite period of time (time needed to break the code), after which you should consider that the information becomes public domain.
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The method has been around for decades indeed, but it isn't economical to doing it on a large scale. But things are slowly changing, it seems, in the right direction.
No ! Did I miss anything......?
Ethernet came a long way since it was created in 1973...
maxi#sh int pos4/0
POS4/0 is up, line protocol is up
Hardware is Packet over SONET
Internet address is x.x.x.x/30
MTU 4470 bytes, BW 9952000 Kbit, DLY 100 usec, rely 255/255, load 237/255
Encapsulation HDLC, crc 16, loopback not set
Keepalive set (10 sec)
Scramble enabled
Last input 00:00:00, output 00:00:00, output hang never
Last clearing of "show interface" counters 00:11:12
Queueing strategy: fifo
Output queue 0/40, 0 drops; input queue 0/75, 0 drops
30 second input rate 9364255000 bits/sec, 13610835 packets/sec
30 second output rate 9269523000 bits/sec, 13473144 packets/sec
664134744840 packets input, 40577299404348 bytes, 0 no buffer
Received 0 broadcasts, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
0 parity
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored, 0 abort
664073263238 packets output, 40559795510616 bytes, 0 underruns
0 output errors, 0 applique, 0 interface resets
0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
0 carrier transitions
maxi#
Was there more to say ? ;)
I'm not arguing over killing spammers, but surely beating the most tenacious should soften them up...:)
Since there are already some legislations out there going in the right direction (California, Washington DC, Nevada, ...) why don't they just "borrow" the text from another state ?
The whole idea of authentication is dull anyway. Who needs P2P authentication when you know the hassle that one has to go through to get and maintain a peering agreement with a Tier1/2 service provider ? And of course, BGP neighbours are manually setup by the remote party. So it's not like you can suddenly take control of internet routers and modify the peering points or anything..
So typically black that you can hardly see a thing ! Frankly I wouldn't have been told in advance that this was supposed to mimic Helm's Deep, I would never have figured out.
At the same time the price of hard drives and RAM keep falling to record low. Nowadays it is routine to have 1GB of RAM and 100's GB for hard drives, soon we will be counting in TB.
Really it was no wonder that IDC predicted traffic will continue to increase. How could it be otherwise !!! In this view, perhaps the LOC will become the basic term for bandwidth/storage in the long run ?
Agreed.
Now we're going into the implementation of this thing... I am assuming that an intelligent clause just doesn't blackhole every ISP server, but restricts the barring to the one site w/ child porn, just like you suggest (Instead, an ISP should be forced to remove questionable materials from their servers). Basically we are saying the same thing I guess, perhaps I am less skilled at wording my ideas properly in the first place :)
Yes, they ought to. If they see borderline or right down illegal stuff, I don't see a problem with them enforcing the agreement binding their users to their operating policy. And if they prove themselves incapable to do so, I don't see a problem either in someone else (big brother) to "assist" them.
Well yes, they might be. I don't have anything to hide, and certainly no kiddy porn. Do you ?
Tough. If they are they hosting "legitimate" sites as long as their kiddies porn, they get what they deserve. Perhaps they will think twice next time, or at least keep the kiddy porn stuff where it belongs (to /dev/null).
I'm typing this in Mozilla as we speak.... Gecko-based browsers are becoming popular (and more populous also w/ deals such as AOL adopting Gecko), so imho it's still a bit early to call the browsers battle lost just yet !
I doubt that there will be anything significant that we will be able to do except predict the end of the world, and you bet that I'll be quitting my job then! :)
That's fine, you can always steal it. We won't tell anything ;)
The announcement was made on January 23, and it's nice to see things moving along. Cisco's announcement has a lot more details than the article reported today.
Save your access_log for posterity, because I'm sending this link to a flock of co-workers at a large company :-)
Can we still speak of Virtual Theft for a matter of $400 ? That sounds like proper theft to me.
So I'm young, white, christian, male and straight (sex. orientations) and except for a pair of glasses I am otherwise perfectly able. Do I stand a chance to get qualified ? :)
So in the US you're saying that people have most things bigger, and do more with more ? heh :)
The article begins with: "..has developed an encryption technology that appears to be unbreakable." (emphasis mine).
Like every other encryption mechanism known to man today, it's just a matter of time before it can be broken.
The real question is to understand the value of your data during a finite period of time (time needed to break the code), after which you should consider that the information becomes public domain.
fortunatly it was not manned. i wouldn't want to be working at mission control today :(
Please do ! This would add a certain value (as in spelling and education) to the Slashdot readership.