Kim Davies wrote:

>Quoting Malcolm Miles on Tuesday November 23, 2004:
>| On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:42:46 +0800, you wrote:
>| 
>| >http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11470070%255E2702,00.html
>| 
>| "Efforts by Telstra BigPond technicians to block access to the porn
>| site failed."
>| 
>| How did they think they were going to do that? Perhaps they could
>| filter it from BigPond users but not everybody is a BigPond user.
>Well, they are publishing fake records for the gay porn site to their
>customers, thusly:
>
>This of couse raises interesting ethical questions about an ISPs right
>to peform man-in-the-middle spoofing on your Internet traffic.
>
>Roll on DNSSEC I say, and this will be a thing of the past.
>
Kia ora Kim,

Surely there are easier ways of doing this filtering instead of spoofing 
the DNS, such as (are they common in .au? I can't recall offhand) 
transparent proxying. It'd filter it out less users, surely, but doesn't 
involve spoofing DNS.

Though does raise, of course ethical issues too. Though I can't imagine 
too many users wanting at the moment to visit a pr0n star's site over an 
Idol winner. Dunno.

Ka kite,
Jonathan Ah Kit.

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