( Original article at http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/george-brandis-in-car-crash-interview-over-controversial-data-retention-regime-20140806-101849.html )
Scroll down a bit, and read this piece of technological comment brilliance:
"[Law enforcement agencies] only have to type the damn IP address [into a web browser] and they'll get the website [you were looking at and] they'll get all the content on it," Mr Dalby said.OMFG.
Who is this strange "Mr Dalby" ???
Oh yes.
Steve Dalby, the chief regulatory officer at iiNet. Really, Mr Dalby?
Ok, here's a challenge.
Go to: http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/web-sites-on-web-server/
Type in, oh, I dunno, something like bmfsearchforce.com (who the hell is that anyway?) and click that good old Check button.
WOW! See how many sites are hosted on that single IP address? Now, lets put your money where your mouth is:
"[Law enforcement agencies] only have to type the damn IP address [into a web browser] and they'll get the website [you were looking at and] they'll get all the content on it," Mr Dalby said.Really?
Off you go then.
Follow my instructions.
Visit yougetsignal/tools/web-sites-on-web-server, type in a domain name, see the IP address that serves those hundreds of domains, copy and paste that IP address into your web browser, Mr Dalby (we wouldn't want you to make a mistake typing in a maximum of 16 digits would we?) and then press Enter.
What do *you* see?
When I follow these instructions, all I get is a web page that says:
pageok
Wow.
"and I got all the content of that website that I was looking at!"
How cool is that?
WOWOWOWOWOWOWOW.
But, perhaps my apologies to Mr Dalby after all.
After all, if you work for a technology company like iiNet, you probably do actually know what you're talking about. Perhaps the venom should be attributed to the writer of the article I linked to.
Ben Grubb
Deputy technology editor
So Ben.
Not quite the "Technology Editor" then? Just the deputy, eh?
I suggest you go learn some more about how the Internet works, before you put your name to articles that contain such errors.
