Re: Tech for blocking particular YouTube video - Wired.com question

2012-10-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Most countries that implement a great firewall of $country model already do route all their international outbound traffic through a common gateway. Still others use the mechanism of sending a court order to all registered ISPs in the country asking them to block whichever URL it is. If that ISP

Re: Tech for blocking particular YouTube video - Wired.com question

2012-10-23 Thread JP Viljoen
On 23 Oct 2012, at 11:52 PM, Ryan Singel wrote: > A colleague is working on a story that a particular country not to be named > implemented technology to block a particular infamous riot-inducing video > for a certain section of its populace. > > The questions are: 1) how hard is this to do at sc

Re: Tech for blocking particular YouTube video - Wired.com question

2012-10-23 Thread Mike Lyon
And of course, we all know, it was the video that induced the riot... :) -mike Sent from my iPhone On Oct 23, 2012, at 14:53, Ryan Singel wrote: > A colleague is working on a story that a particular country not to be named > implemented technology to block a particular infamous riot-inducing v

Tech for blocking particular YouTube video - Wired.com question

2012-10-23 Thread Ryan Singel
A colleague is working on a story that a particular country not to be named implemented technology to block a particular infamous riot-inducing video for a certain section of its populace. The questions are: 1) how hard is this to do at scale, 2) does it require DPI equipment and 3) is there a way