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overview for Wednesday, 14. May 2003

Wednesday, 14. May 2003

Data vs. Programs

While we were struggeling on the question how to define a program (and didn't came to a conclusion up to now) I found some cery interesting thoughts in old issues of the risk digest.
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DNS-Tampering: rotten.com

My recent DNS survey indicates some ISPs are faking entries for rotten.com. This is unexpected since the blocking orders don't talk about http://rotten.com/
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Swiss ISPs doing DNS-Tampering ... not anymore.

Unnoticed by the international scene ISPs in Swizerland fought a blocking order by a swiss court adressing the blocking of http://appel-au-peuple-suisse.org (propably meaning http://appel-au-peuple.org), http://de.geocities.com/justicecontrol/ and http://www.swiss-corruption.com.

The court argued that the sites contained deliberate insults and asked for DNS-Tampering and blocking at proxy level. (Looks like DNS-Tampering against geocities.com seemed to be to harsh.)

Some providers complied but together swiss ISPs appealed the courd which lifted the blocking order last week.

The case seems significant, because the sites are not about p0rn, IP infringement, building bombs or hating ethnic groups but criticism about the swiss legal system.

Court documents (in French): http://www.nrg4u.com/abuse/

Info in English:

http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog@swinog.ch/msg00861.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog@swinog.ch/msg00950.html

Info in German:

http://www.siug.ch/presse/

http://www.ioz.ch/news/030214.htm

http://www.green.ch/de/green/pressemitteilungen/pdf/green_freiheit.pdf

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hob-12.12.02-000/

http://www.widmerpartners-lawyers.ch/itlaw.htm#Sperrung

http://www.symlink.ch/articles/02/12/12/1932214.shtml

http://www.nzz.ch/2003/05/09/em/page-article8UCGQ.html