--- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 09:23:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Annalee Newitz <brainsploitationat_private> Reply-To: annaleeat_private Subject: Earthlink's absurd open relay policy To: declanat_private Hey Declan. Readers may be interested in this story about Earthlink's (lack of) policy related to whose mail servers they block and why. A large subculture list in San Francisco was blocked because an obscure security hole in their servers came up as an "open relay" when Earthlink hacked (erm, "scanned") their mail server. Raises some interesting questions about free speech. Annalee Here's a snippet: Where did the Squid List go? And what about all the other subculture e-mail lists hosted on the Laughing Squid servers, such as the one for Burning Man barflies and the one for fans of exploitation movies? Scott Beale, owner of San Francisco Web-hosting company Laughing Squid and "primary tentacle" of underground event bulletin Squid List, started hearing those questions from users who weren't getting their daily doses of Squid. "At first I thought it was nothing - just a few e-mails that didn't get through," he said. But as days went by, he realized that the only people who weren't receiving e-mail from Laughing Squid were Earthlink customers. . . http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14008 ===== Annalee Newitz tech * pop * sex 415.487.2559 - cell: 415.378.4498 www.techsploitation.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan CNET Radio 9:40 am ET weekdays: http://cnet.com/broadband/0-7227152.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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