Comments on: Banned at Sudbury Airport

By: Geoff Sherrington

Geoff Sherrington — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:58:50 +0000

Steve, I still think you were blocked in Australia, see post 99 of http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=4962 January 30th, 2009 at 11:37 pm.

BTW, we found the bug that was getting to my passwords on my PC this week and it was quite clever. It gathered through the brown dog that Windows XP uses as part of their childish visual help. Doggone now.

By: curious

curious — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:53:02 +0000

Steady Gene – just saying the name will get you snipped!

By: Gene Nemetz

Gene Nemetz — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:48:54 +0000

Maybe it’s those racey Beyoncé videos.

By: MartinGAtkins

MartinGAtkins — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:51:23 +0000

Re: Thomas J. Arnold. (#199), Thailand does not block WUWT or CA. I have lived in Patong for nearly three years and have had no problem using two different ISPs. YouTube may still be blocked by one ISP but it was established that it is not a government directive. Steve: I observed above that I had encountered no access problem in Thailand.

By: Mike Lorrey

Mike Lorrey — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:00:05 +0000

I am still curious as to the person Steve talked to at Sudbury who noticed he was at Real Climate and commented how it was such a great site. Firebugs tend to watch the fires they start.

By: Terra

Terra — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:57:20 +0000

Steve, I can not provide further details on the mechanics of the problem. We do not have an IT staff on site and my knowledge of this technology is quite limited. As mentioned, the internet on those PC’s was being provided by an outside agency.

There was no security risk to our systems as these computers are not connected to our network, their sole purpose is to allow passengers to have internet access while waiting for flights.

If you would like further information, please email me at terra.glabb@greatersudbury.ca and I can put you in contact with someone who can provide details.

By: Steve McIntyre

Steve McIntyre — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:42:43 +0000

Re: Terra (#230),

Terra, I’m glad to learn that the airport itself didn’t block the site, but could you clarify things further.

I’m still puzzled as to the mechanics of the block even on the basis that the software installation was unauthorized.

The software company Softforyou says that climateaudit.org was not on their blocked list and yet access was blogged – which would seem to contradict the statement of the software company. Can you shed any light on this?

By: Severian

Severian — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:56:55 +0000

Re: Terra (#233), Well, one good thing that's come out of this little kerfluffle is that Sudbury has identified and corrected a major security flaw in their airport public internet machines. Kudos to Terra for kindly updating us all on what is going on.

By: David L. Hagen

David L. Hagen — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:41:33 +0000

Checking on the correct name of “ClimateAudit.org”, Alex at SoftForYou.com supportQE@softforyou.com replied:

Re: Feedback (#178),
ClimateAudit.org (and ClimateAudit.com) does not include in our Blocked List.
Our program (iProtectYou or CyberSieve) does not block ClimateAudit.org.

By: Jeff Alberts

Jeff Alberts — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:29:10 +0000

I think “p**p” a strong candidate for triggering the filtering software, Deep climate could make sure.

I don’t think so. Any number of baby-oriented sites (parenting, etc.) would be filled with such words. And if it’s THAT sensitive, there’s no point in even trying really.