Dean Anderson wrote:
> It was decided a long time ago that DNS data is public knowledge.
Who decided what?
Public DNS is public, because it has been made public, but
people use private DNS in a number of significant cases.
It's basically a question of "what do you want to work, and what do you
want to not work?"
> Cyveillance is doing nothing wrong by monitoring the public web pages
> and this obviously means querying the DNS servers for those web sites.
> Other search engines do the same.
Yeah, probably.
> I suggest that, at minimum, you should ask your customers if they wish
> to block Cyveillance (and other search engines). Being you are in
> Finland, I don't know what privacy laws you have to obey. But it would
> seem only ethical and proper that you should put such questions to
your
> customers and let them choose, rather than making the choice for them
> without their knowledge or approval.
This seems like a good idea, to the degree that it's practical.
> In the U.S., such unauthorized blocking would violate the Wiretap Act
> and the ECPA, because it is unauthorized (ECPA), and not a 'necessary
> incident to the rendition of service' (Wiretap Act). See for example,
> http://www.av8.net/IETF-watch/JohnLevine/
I get a 404 on this page, and I'm dubious about this legal reasoning.
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Raul
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