Hi Sara
As I said in a previous message, this kind of bloking or
filtering is very difficult to implement. The increasing
popularity and availability of VPN technologies on line is
actually a double-edged sward. It is very useful for companies
and aother organisations who require encrypted tunnels between,
for "instance, employees and the company office. However, like
any other tool, it is open to abuse.
The techonlogies are also being used to access services whose
content is intended to be restricted by country. For example, I
know of 2 people who openly boast about their being able to
access BBC television services, Chanel 4 and 5, as well as other
UK-SPECIFIC services which are restricted because of two
important issues. In the case of the BBC, the bicense-paying
public have a moral right, in my opinion, to object to these
bandits who insist on this form of intellectual property theft.
The second reason is that these people and those like them are
causing the provider to be in breech of copyright. For example,
Warner Brothers, Disney and other production companies sell their
wares to the TV companies. Although at the moment this is quite
a small-scale issue, it is one which will probably grow as time
goes on. At that time, the providers may be forced to withdraw
their online services altogether.
I know that the US has similar legislation on some of its TV
content as well, for similar reasons. I'd love to see the VPN
service providers take steps to block this kind of access. They
could easily do so, and that would allow them, their legitimate
customers and the rest of the world to coexist in harmony.
Kind Regards
Gordon Smith
Information Technology Accessibility consultant
Providing Support For Young People Living With Sight Loss:
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----- Original Message -----
From: Sarah k Alawami <[email protected]
To: Technology Enthusiasm Restricted To
<[email protected]
Date sent: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 03:27:31 -0800
Subject: Re: Question about web site administration
I know you can set up something in the wordpress settings, but
since my site is run a bit differently I can't direct you any
further. Have you checked your CPannel to see what you could do
in terms of security and ip and all of that good stuff? I don't
use CPannel and have not for about 2 years now. but hopefully
this will give you a push in the right direction.
Good luck and good luck with your project.
Sarah Alawami
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Happy new years.
On Dec 31, 2013, at 6:10 AM, Christopher gilland
<[email protected]> wrote:
So, here's the situation. I'm not gonna go into the details on
list specifically, and if anyone on list does go into them,
you'll automatically be denied a future account. Basically, I
recently had to take down a web site I was hosting for reasons
beyond my control. Well, ok, fine, they were to my control in
that I chose in my disgression to take the site down, but that's
neither here nor there. Bottom line is, the site went down.
It's not your concern why or how. Just know it did. Anyway, the
point is, I spoke with someone who will be completely under all
circumstances left anonymous, who really badly wants to take over
the web site. for reasons I don't wish to share publicly, this
is not going to be an option, and his request has been denied to
some degree of level. I say to some degree because of the reason
I'm writing the list this morning.
Basically, here's the deal. When the site was running, it was
being powered by the very newest version of WordPress which was
being hosted on a CPanel/WHM server. What I'd like to maybe
consider doing, provided that this is doable, is to set the site
back up, reinstall Wordpress on the domain, but then, set it up
in such of a way where no one under any circumstances whatsoever
could access the web site unless they had a user name and a
password. Furthermore, not only do I want them to have to login,
but I also want to bind their access to their IP address. I
understand that if they have a dynamic IP and it changes, they'd
get blacklisted. I'm totally 100% aware of that. that is
something however I'm very much willing to risk. I basically
want to make this totally 100% a monthly paid subscription
service. the reason I want to bind things to people's IP's is
because, you darn well know that people're gonna try cheating the
system and giving out their login to other pe
ople telling them, here, use it, and keep your mouth shut. I'm
not about to let myself get cheated in this manor.
Gordon, I know you and Lynn who moderate this list run servers
as well, such as the one hosting this listserv. I'd even
possibly be willing to pay you all monthly for hosting and that
extra incryption if you think you all could set me something up.
We'd have to talk about that off list though. If the privacy
cannot be set through a Wordpress plugin, or through the
htaccess file to do this, and, if in addition, I can't tie those
accounts to certain IP addresses, whether that be through a web
based control panel, through a firewall of some type, or through
an SQL database that can be managed through a web interface, I
will not be taking on this project. I'm sorry, but the stuff
that I will be putting up is my own copy written work, and
frankly, I'm not about to let it leak into the wrong people's
hands.
If there is any way to do this, and you all can tell me how to
make it happen, I'll get started, as I don't really have anything
else to do today. Otherwise, it's not gonna be happening.
Chris.
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