One week ago, the news site TorrentFreak reported that The Pirate Bay and nearly 20 other torrent and pirate sites were being blocked by Cogent Communications, an Internet backbone provider. The block had been in place for more than a week and appeared to “appl[y] to the company’s entire global network,” affecting customers of ISPs "from all over the world" that send traffic through Cogent.

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Cogent CEO Dave Schaeffer yesterday confirmed to Ars that the company is complying with a court order issued recently in Spain. But The Pirate Bay was not the subject of the court order, Schaeffer also confirmed. Schaeffer would not say which site or sites the order was intended to block, but the incident demonstrates how court orders to block websites can have unintended effects. (We have not been able to track down the specific court order at this time.)

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Court orders to block websites are more commonly issued to residential ISPs that directly serve consumers, not Internet transit providers like Cogent. The backbone operators are “usually the last guys” to get such orders, which can have unpredictable effects at that layer of the network, said co-founder and CTO Don Bowman of Sandvine, which makes network management equipment.

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The Cogent situation is not the first such court order, but “it’s still early in this evolution, and it gives us concern that if these sorts of orders continue to multiply, it’s going to provide additional complexity and complication,” Kramer said. “We want to be proactive about it now to make sure these court orders don’t multiply in a problematic way.”

:(

Projet de loi adopté, cette horreur sécuritaire rejoint donc notre corpus législatif. :(

On garde tous les trucs crades que j'ai mentionnés dans mon dernier shaarli : légitime défense renforcée (y compris pour les douanes et les jojos de l'opération Sentinelle), armement des pros chargés de la protection de personnes, anonymat des agents de l'autorité publique dans un nombre important de cas (infraction > 3 ans de taule ou tout crime/délit en raison de circonstances particulières…), les services de renseignements (au service de l'exécutif) peuvent mettre leur nez dans le secret des instructions judiciaires, hausse des peines encourues pour outrage envers un agent de l'autorité publique et pour refus d'obtempérer, etc.

On y ajoute l'usage des armes par la police municipale et un délit de consultation habituelle des sites web "terroristes" nouvelle version qui ne respecte pas les exigences du Conseil constitutionnel, mais on n'est plus à ça près.

Joie. :( Bref, nos élu-e-s renforcent les pouvoirs de l'autorité publique tout en la rendant anonyme dans un grand nombre de cas. L'État qui s'arme contre les citoyen-ne-s. :(