<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Well, despite rumors of the whole thing being a hoax or stunt the NIPRCC appears to be genuine <<a href="http://www.ice.gov/iprcenter/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168); ">http://www.ice.gov/iprcenter/</a>> and the takedowns legit, but the confusion is understandable - the methods were obscure and devious. The inclusion of two visitor tracking scripts especially raised suspicions.<div>
<a href="http://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/the-background-dope-on-dhs-recent-seizure-of-domains/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168); ">http://rulingclass.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/the-background-dope-on-dhs-recent-seizure-of-domains/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>ICE did take out some sites in June, but did announce it officially <a href="http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1006/100630losangeles.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168); ">http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1006/100630losangeles.htm</a> and checking one of the officially seized sites <a href="http://tvshack.net/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168); ">http://tvshack.net/ </a> reveals a smaller graphic and none of the analytics scripts </div>
<div><br></div><div>It does raise some questions </div><div><br></div><div>1) Why no confirming PR from ICE? <a href="http://www.ice.gov/news/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168); ">http://www.ice.gov/news/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>2) Why track visitors?</div><div><br></div><div>3) Why use third parties and hide behind anonymous whois? </div><div><br></div><div>4) Why are the redirected sites not Section 508 compliant?</div><div>
<br></div><div>5) Why do it over Thanksgiving holiday?</div><div><br></div><div>As the above article notes it will be interesting to see if Afilias registered sites are the next target, and it is evident that COICA is required to similarly block non US registered domains.</div>
<div><br></div><div>joly</div></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:59 PM, DeeDee Halleck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deedeehalleck@gmail.com">deedeehalleck@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> The shields on the notice seem a bit beyond the aesthetic that one customarily (sic) associates with ICE.<div>Especially the red border!</div>
<div><br></div><div>But to follow up on <font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">Milton and Marc</span></font></div><div class="im">
<div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">"ICE is a relatively </span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">recent creation, gathering powers that traditionally resided </span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">with Customs and the INS."</span></div>
</div><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">and</span></div><div class="im"><div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">"</span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"> Interesting that this can go on without COICA."</span></div>
<div><br></div></div><div>At the very least this is a wake up call about the fragility of global infrastructure with these "gathering powers"</div><div><br></div><div>To compare the notice with the aesthetic of ICE check out</div>
<div><a href="http://www.ice.gov/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ice.gov/index.htm</a></div><div>ICE seems to prefer images of drug caches and handcuffed brown arms and under this administration the prevailing color is blue.</div>
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<br></div><div>BTW "We seize" is what a few of us called WSIS a few years ago in Geneva.</div><div><br></div><div>DeeDee</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>---------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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