Re: [lac-discuss-es] PTO EE.UU. bloquea el acceso a ciertos sitios web
[[--Translated text (en -> es)--]] Asunto: Re: PTO EE.UU. bloquea el acceso a ciertos sitios web De: salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com Gracias Carlton. Mis comentarios están en línea. El Viernes, Sep 21, 2012 a las 9:06 AM, Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels@gmail.com> escribió:
Thanks Sala for sending the link to the categories the Bluecoat Filter may be programmed to block. I have just copied them inline here: Abortion<http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/catdesc.jsp?referrer=null&locale=en_US> Adult/Mature Content<http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/catdesc.jsp?referrer=null&locale=en_US> Alcohol<http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/catdesc.jsp?referrer=null&locale=en_US> Alternative Sexuality/Lifestyles<http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/catdesc.jsp?referrer=null&locale=en_US> Alternative Spirituality/Belief<http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/catdesc.jsp?referrer=null&locale=en_US> Art/Culture<http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/catdesc.jsp?referrer=null&locale=en_US> Auctions<http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/catdesc.jsp?referrer=null&locale=en_US> Audio/Video Clips<http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/catdesc.jsp?referrer=null&locale=en_US> Blogs/Personal Pages<http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/catdesc.jsp?referrer=null&locale=en_US> Brokerage/Trading<http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/catdesc.jsp?referrer=null&locale=en_US> 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Click on any link and it gives an explanation of intent, *inclusive* of example websites. For example for the Abortion category, it refers abortionfacts.com.
When I read the thread - and before I made the original post to the list - it was the torturous explanation that got to me.
Explanations of the type 'well, it was standard procedure' or 'whaddya know, the slack-jawed geek we had doing this went off on a frolic of his own' strains credulity. I have worked as a contractor in several US federal government agencies in the DC area, including the PTO. This was in the late 80's. Note the time period and what was happening then. My area of expertise was network systems and binary object processing. I cannot see a COTR allowing you, a contracted geek, to setup such a filter profile without direct oversight.
perfil de filtrado. Sería interesante ver que "alcance". Aquí vemos un par de cosas sucediendo, una sola mano, el contratista en este caso como todos los otros negocios se preocupa por ganar dinero y, francamente, ¿hay nada malo en ello. Esperamos que las empresas se comporten de esa manera, ¿no? Sin embargo, lo que tal vez no puede esperar es que el Gobierno de los EE.UU. a través de el PTO EE.UU. para seleccionar un contratista que es conocido por ayudar a los sirios desde la captura de los disidentes, etc O me estoy perdiendo algo?? Como siempre Carlton, me encantan tus posts :)
- Carlton
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro < salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
Ooops!!
(from the same URL, edited:)
Update: At 5 pm the USPTO called and said that the public access wifi
network was using a filter, provided by a contractor, to block "political activist" sites. This filter was not used by the network providing Internet access for the USPTO staff. After our meeting, the USPTO reviewed its policies, and has removed the filter. USPTO says the filter was implemented by a contractor, and no one we talked to at USPTO was aware of who was being blocked. In any event, the filter has been removed.
Makes you wonder what the contractor was doing creating the filter in the first place.
- Evan
Excellent point Evan. Apparently it was done by Blue Coat and James Tyre kindly provided this link
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/blue-coat-acknowledges-syrian-governme...
To see the categories they used for blocking, visit: http://goo.gl/UY4fz [Thanks to James Love for providing the link]
James Love wrote about how they as political activists were blocked, see:
USPTO blocks web access to "Political/Activist Groups" including KEI, ACLU, EFF, Public Citizen, Redstate, DailyKos <http://keionline.org/node/1548>
- View <http://keionline.org/node/1548> - What links here <http://keionline.org/node/1548/backlinks>
Submitted by James Love on 18. September 2012 - 12:32
*Update:* At 5 pm the USPTO called and said that the public access wifi
network was using a filter, provided by a contractor, to block "political activist" sites. This filter was not used by the network providing Internet access for the USPTO staff. After our meeting, the USPTO reviewed its policies, and has removed the filter. USPTO says the filter was implemented by a contractor, and no one we talked to at USPTO was aware of who was being blocked. In any event, the filter has been removed.
Today I was visiting the USPTO, for a high level meeting on global negotiations on intellectual property and access to medicine. The meeting was held in the Stockholm Room, on the 2nd floor of the USPTO library, at the main USPTO building at 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA. The USPTO also uses these meeting rooms for its Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA). The USPTO offers free Wifi for the visitors. But when I tried to login to http://keionline.org, I received this message:
Access Denied (content_filter_denied)
Your request was denied because this URL contains content that is categorized as: "Political/Activist Groups" which is blocked by USPTO policy. If you believe the categorization is inaccurate, please contact the USPTO Service Desk and request a manual review of the URL.
For assistance, contact USPTO OCIO IT Service Desk. (io-proxy4)
We checked and found that the USPTO blocks access to a number of groups that have followed SOPA and the TPP intellectual property negotiations, particularly those critical of the USPTO positions on intellectual property issues. Among the NGOs that were blocked were aclu.org, cdt.org, citizen.org , eff.org, healthgap.org, keionline.org andpublicknowledge.org. Among the
sites NOT BLOCKED were the industry lobby groups BSA, MPPA, RIIA, and PhRMA.
The USPTO also selectively blocks certain blogs and new sites, including, for example, dailykos.coms, firedoglake.com, redstate.org, rushlimbaugh.com andtalkingpointsmemo.com.,
Here are examples of what the USPTO blocks, and does not block. *Blocked NGOs* aclu.org
cdt.org citizen.org eff.org healthgap.org keionline.org publicknowledge.org*NGOs that are NOT blocked* bsa.org
creativecommons.org iipa.com iipi.org ipi.org mpaa.org PhRMA.org pubpat.org RIIA.Org stockholm-network.org *Blocked Blogs and news outlets*dailykos.coms firedoglake.com redstate.org rushlimbaugh.com talkingpointsmemo.com *Blogs and new outlets that are NOT blocked*
71patent.blogspot.com aljazeera.com boingboing.net dailycaller.com democracynow.org drudgereport.com groklaw.net huffingtonpost.com ip-watch.org itcblog.com lessig.org michaelgeist.ca nationalreview.com spicyipindia.blogspot.com techdirt.com washingtonmonthly.com
- James Love's blog <http://keionline.org/blog/jamie> - Add new comment < http://keionline.org/comment/reply/1548#comment-form> - Printer-friendly version <http://keionline.org/print/1548> - Send by email <http://keionline.org/printmail/1548>
Cause of foul up <http://keionline.org/node/1548#comment-7970>
Submitted by Anonymous dude or dudess on 19. September 2012 - 12:02.
'Ex-Patent Examiner here. If this was anything other than a contractor foul-up, I'll eat my hat. There were a dozen instances where I'd need to call the help desk to access a website that would enable me to do my job.' If true, this means no one at USPTO tried to access those sites and asked for the filter to be removed since it was implemented.
- reply <http://keionline.org/comment/reply/1548/7970>
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