Re: Arrogant RBL list maintainers

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Edwards
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Michael Holstein wrote:

| Their initial email said :
| 
| [snip]
| Trend Micro Notification: 137.148.0.0/16 added to DUL
| [snip]

Oh dear.  I can see why many sites that once used MAPS now don't :-(



Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

2009-10-22 Thread Chris Edwards
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Alex Balashov wrote:

| Understood.  I guess the angle I was going more for was:  Is this actually
| practical to do in a country with almost as many Internet users as the US has
| people?
| 
| I had always assumed that broad policies and ACLs work in China, but most
| forms of DPI and traffic pattern analysis aren't practical simply for
| computational feasibility reasons.  Not unless the system were highly
| distributed.

Perhaps they only need make an example of a few, and thus introduce an 
element of fear for everyone else.




Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

2009-10-22 Thread Chris Edwards
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Alex Balashov wrote:

| I was not aware that tools or techniques to do this are widespread or highly
| functional in a way that would get them adopted in an Internet access control
| application of a national scope.

Doesn't necessarily have to be hugely accurate.  The authorities could 
simply identify a few likely suspect tunnels, then knock-on-doors and ask 
you to explain what the traffic in question is...