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Originally Posted by taxbuster
The "Bot File" is under an extreme NDA. People can disclose its existence, but cannot disclose the contents. Some people will .... say more than others, but not much.
The background to this is found in what is known as the "Compliance and Enforcement and Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2021-9" and can be found here: https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2021/2021-9.htm
Its informal title: Call for comments - Development of a network-level blocking framework to limit botnet traffic and strengthen Canadians’ online safety
Public (mostly) documents can be found here:
https://services.crtc.gc.ca/pub/List...=a&PT=nc&PST=a
The others....can be found here: "Redacted"
Most of the interesting stuff is buried (apparently) in the redacted documents, which aren't even published, just libraried. Technical details, IPs of known sites etc are in there (as they are now in the Court records, also redacted). |
Okay from what I'm reading there, the CRTC is using anti-botnet (and that is vague - I can see it being extended to any undesirable networks) legislation to justify network level blocks. From you said, then I gather it is perhaps going to be used in the favor of the NHL rights holders to also limit net neutrality and enforce blocks on providers of streams.
From the public document, it only mentions blocking DNS resolution and known IP address lists but as the Pirate Bay showed, they could easily proxy and hide behind ever-changing IPs on the darkweb.
Against certain actors, dynamic IP based blacklists are not that effective, maybe you are hinting towards the fact that they would be pushing toward deep packet inspection of all traffic to identify undesirable activity? That sounds super big-brother to me.