LinuxQuestions.org - In The Middle Of Nowhere [edK's blog]

In The Middle Of Nowhere

Life, universe and everything...
--
Blog title (C) Orbital

.RU domains: No rules, no responsibilities

Posted 02-20-2010 at 07:19 AM by Web31337 (In The Middle Of Nowhere [edK's blog])

Tags bittorrent, copyright, domains, governments

Few days ago we had an accident with one of Russia's most popular bittorrent tracker site, torrents.ru. A domain was undelegated from DNS servers by request of our agencies.
While, in an official agreement, that accepted by both sides(registrar and registrant) when a new .ru domain is registered there is a note about "Registrator may not interact with conflicts a registrant may have with 3rd parties."
In this case it were two companies, complained about "torrents.ru...

Web31337

Member

Posted in etc, security

Views 756 Comments 0 Web31337 is offline

SourceForge "removes" ban set at 25.01.2010

Posted 02-08-2010 at 01:59 PM by Web31337 (In The Middle Of Nowhere [edK's blog])

Tags governments, opensource, sourceforge

It seems like yesterday SF.net decided to give up with forced ban(more: SF blog, my post) of Syria, Iran, Sudan, North Korea and Cuba, and now they provide users with option "Export Control", allowing to opt in or opt out for ban.
By default, all projects have that ban enabled.
Read this @ sf.net blog.
But you know, the way it's done... The way it was done initially can only point me to "Prepare for unforeseen consequences" (C) G-Man, Half-Life 2 Episode...

Web31337

Member

Posted in opensource, etc

Views 821 Comments 0 Web31337 is offline

USA, GoDaddy and stupid supporters

Posted 02-08-2010 at 11:04 AM by Web31337 (In The Middle Of Nowhere [edK's blog])

Tags domains, godaddy, governments, ssl

Yesterday I've started to think about securing my services with trusted SSL certs, so I've googled for "Multiple Hostname X509" and found several good articles on generating those and link to godaddy.com, as they can sign those.
I've looked through their site, found no really good explanation for most of things, and decided to poke their support.
Here is what I sent:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Konstantin Leonov

Hello.

Some questions around SSL certs.

I'd like to know more about

...

Web31337

Member

Posted in etc

Views 1031 Comments 0 Web31337 is offline

In response to SF.net lockdown for "enemies"

Posted 01-28-2010 at 03:58 AM by Web31337 (In The Middle Of Nowhere [edK's blog])

Tags governments, opensource, proxy, sourceforge, the matrix

25.01.2010 a biggest opensource projects hoster, sourceforge.net denied access to certain countries, which are Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria(correct me if I missed some). They wrote it on their blog.
SF referred to US law, since this was made to follow it. But the way I see it is quite different.

What they actually did is made problems to legal users from these countries. And the ones that should (probably) be blocked will bypass it just by using proxy.
...

Web31337

Member

Posted in opensource, etc

Views 903 Comments 0 Web31337 is offline