If you’re working in the small world of Internet Providers or perform any other business related to Internet, you are for sure aware of the major outage affecting Colt since yesterday in Europe (or you’re living on the moon!) Checkout the article on theregister.co.uk. I received feedback from several customers
Category: ISP
Belgium Would Like to Track Your Emails for Two Years?
Mr Stefaan De Clerck , the Belgian Justice Minister announced a new plan to fight (cyber-)criminals. Belgian ISP’s could be asked forced to keep a trace of all communications via e-mail for two years. Read the article on the RTBF website in French (or via Google Translate). The main reason
E-mail Portability for Belgian ISPs Soon?
A new law is in the pipe in Belgium. Like snail mail or mobile numbers, the Federal authorities would like to implement the portability of e-mail addresses and homepages when the user changes of Internet Service Provider (for a period of six months). The goal of this law is to
The Great Firewall of Belgium
Due to an official request from the federal authorities, Belgian Internet Service Providers are preventing their customers to access four very-controversial URLs (all of them pointing to the same website). When I say “controversial”, it means, regarding the Belgian law, “illegal”. This website publishes personal information about people who performed
When The “Political” Layer Impacts The Internet
The Internet is a wonderful media, based on strong routing protocols like BGP. Originally, the Internet was designed to be “unbreakable” (of course, it is not): If a path to a network is unavailable, an alternative (or backup) path will be used. BGP is designed in this way: based on
Who Still Remember Usenet?
A page of the Internet history will maybe be turned off soon. Three major ISPs in the United States (Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable) announced they will stop access to Usenet! (or access will be limited to the Big-8). The youngest of us have probably never used a “newsreader”
France Will Filter Child Pornography
It’s almost done. To fight child pornography on the Internet, the French government has a project of law (article in French) to filter all websites giving access to child pornography. The list will be distributed to all French ISP’s and they will have to block access to those websites (on
Be Multi Homed!
Are you multi-homed? In short terms, are you connected to the Internet via more than one Internet Service Provider? Today, more and more business activities rely on Internet: corporabe website, emails, online shopping. Loosing your Internet connectivity is a major risk. Could you evaluate it? What will happen if your
The day the routers died…
whois POEM-RIPE55-SONG. This song closed the RIPE-55 meeting held in Amsterdam.
Justice .vs. P2P : 1 – 0
The SABAM (Société Belge des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs) sent a press-release regarding a judgement against the Belgian ISP Tiscali (aka Scarlet). The Brussels court gave reason to SABAM and will force Tiscali to block P2P traffic! The Belgian Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers (SABAM) has just won an