2009/7/8 David Gerard <[email protected]>:
> 2009/7/8 Steve Summit <[email protected]>:
>> Gregory Maxwell wrote:

>>> For instance, take the UK service providers surreptitiously modifying
>>> Wikipedia's responses on the fly to create a fake 404 when you hit
>>> particular articles.

>> Urk.  (Can someone cite the details?)

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_Wikipedia


The interesting thing, by the way, is that (a) we spotted the
interception *immediately* (b) we spotted a later interception, a
month or two later, immediately as well - and the IWF denied
involvement in the second interception when we asked them directly
(and we have no reason not to believe them on this), suggesting the
ISPs in question were testing the CleanFeed filter to see how it
affected a major site (we don't actually know the reason, that's the
most plausible thing anyone could come up with).

This suggests the best thing we can do about this style of censorship
is default SSL for all. Which won't be cheap, but would serve our
editors well.


- d.

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