Re: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

Christopher L. Morrow wrote:

this happens today in many countries.... 1) france and the 'yahoo nazi site' 2) state of PA (usa) and child porn sites 3) panama and blocking of VOIP traffic

there are quite a few more, and yes, it's not too pretty ;(

Prof Jonathan Zittrain and Ben Edelman at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society have documented several such instances at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/ - Ben has presented at at least some netops conferences about this as well. suresh