Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:07:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Tony Kimball <alk@think.com>, dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Migrating BSDI 1.1 Passwords Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.960801150339.22320A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <4169.838921016@orion.webspan.net>
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On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > Tony Kimball wrote in message ID > <199608011729.MAA10744@compound.Think.COM>: > > : Well, I would do, but I do a sup from sup.Freebsd.org :) > > > Now you've done it. They have to cut off your sup feed. And probably > > have to hack supfilesrv to special-case export-restricted directories > > in the long run (wasted manpower) or worse yet cut off all non-US > > domains from sup.freebsd.org -- otherwise they are not excercising due > > diligence and are subject to seizure/lien/forfeiture/criminal action. > > It's ok banning `*.uk', for example, but what happens (for example) if > the person wanting the code works for `demon.net' or `xara.net', both > of whom are in the UK, and both of whom have US style addresses? We > can't win :-( Yes, you can. There are only a limited number of netblocks allocated to the UK, and all of those could be banned. Apparently, gatekeeper.dec.com has been using access control via a database of netblocks for a few years now for this exact purpose (or maybe this has changed recently). Tom
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