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UK Censorship: Brit Porn Filter Censors 13 Years of Net History
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:55:32 -0800
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Completely whacked. Via El Reg. [snip] Four weeks after birthing a nationwide Wikipedia edit ban, Britain's child porn blacklist has led at least one ISP to muzzle the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine - an 85-billion-page web history dating back to 1996. According to multiple customers of Demon Internet - now owned by Brit telecom Thus - the London-based ISP is blocking access to all sites stored in the archive. When they query the Wayback Machine, hoping to retrieve archived pages, customers are met with generic "not found" error pages. But judging from their urls, these pages are generated by a web filter based on the blacklist compiled by the Internet Watch Foundation, a government-backed organization charged with policing online pornography. One Demon customer tells us he was unable to visit archived versions of websites run by the BBC, Parliament, the United Nations, the Internet Watch Foundation, Demon Internet, and Thus. In other words, this customer points out, Thus is blocking its own web history. "It is nuts," he says. [snip] More information here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/14/demon_muzzles_wayback_machine/ - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFJbYxfq1pz9mNUZTMRAldvAKDdQFHkwyyu6tQoThCcDazcCN2gOACdF3Yq 1wqYNeBvyQlCbAxWnpZgOyg= =KplN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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