On 9/27/11 7:50 AM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:57 AM, William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com> wrote: [snip]
Certainly, hijacking google.com NS records to JOMAX.NET would be a criminal interference. After all, that's all DNSsec signed now, isn't it?
I would rather see DNSSEC and TLS/HTTPS get implemented end to end.
They are.
The last thing we need is a court to step in and say "It's not legal for an ISP to blacklist, block, or redirect traffic, to any hostname or IP address."
Don't distort my words. It amuses me when so-called conservative cyber-libertarians hate the idea of courts stepping in to enforce laws, except the laws governing their own contracts enforcing payments regardless of the quality of their goods. The cable and satellite industry forced through digital protection acts -- to protect their revenue streams. Now, it's time to use those acts against them. It's not legal for an ISP to modify computer data. Especially digitally signed data. That's a criminal offense. It's not legal for a vendor to sell or give away equipment that aids interception and modification of data. That's a criminal offense.
Most likely the ISPs' lawyers were smart enough to include a clause in the ToS/AUP allowing the ISP to intercept, blackhole, or redirect access to any hostname or IP address.
It's not legal to insert a clause allowing criminal conduct. There's no safe haven for criminal conduct.
The name for an ISP intercepting traffic from its own users is not "interference" or "DoS", because they're breaking the operation of (er) only their own network.
No, they're breaking the operation of my network and my computers. My network connects to their network.
The solution is to spread their name as widely as possible, so consumers can make an informed choice if they wish to avoid service providers that engage in abusive practices, and bring it attention to regulators if the service providers are acting as an abusive monopoly in regards to their interception practices.
There are no choices. They *are* abusive monopolies. Why are "regulators" better than courts? After all, the regulators will also involve courts.