[Chapter-delegates] Input Request: DNS Blocking - on transparency

[Chris Grundemann]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 15:34, Marcin Cieslak <saper at saper.info> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Joly MacFie wrote:
>>
>>> And suggest, at least, transparency.
>
> The first casualty of war is innocence. Transparency
> comes arguably second.
>
> If you have DNS or URL blocking list, you have to make it secret
> since otherwise it will become a government- or private-sector
> sponsored "directory of wonderful things".
>
> How are going to discuss filtering rules, effectiveness of the method
> etc.  if you don't know what's being filtered out or not?

You must determine what is being filtered without being told. Tools to
do this are already in development, notably:
http://www.herdict.org/web/
~Chris

> That's actually the case of the Finnish site http://lapsiporno.info/
> - you get blocked because your discuss the filtering list contents openly.
>
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Lapsiporno.info has more on
> that.
>
> //Marcin
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