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Re: blocking IP ranges from querying tinydns

To: Mike Jackson <mj@sci.fi>
Subject: Re: blocking IP ranges from querying tinydns
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 22:15:33 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 15 May 2007, Mike Jackson wrote:

> Dean Anderson wrote:
> > It was decided a long time ago that DNS data is public knowledge.  
> > 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.
> 
> The question was purely technical, not philosophical. I don't want these
> people monitoring my networks and I am out to stop them in the most
> fundamental of ways. End of discussion.

Technical knowledge without ethics is the most pernicious of things.

Cyveillance is only monitoring public information, information that your
customers made public for Cyveillance and others to monitor.

I cannot help you with technical questions, if you are entirely
unconcerned about ethical behavior and driven by some kind of irrational
paranoia.

                --Dean


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