This is the RFI journalist David Thomson, author of the recent book The French jihadist , which was first reported on Twitter on Sunday: in place and instead of the website’s home page islamic-news.info – he described as “a site relatively little influence projihad” – now appears to the user a large red hand matched the logo of the Interior Ministry. With this text: “You have been redirected to the official website because your computer would connect to a page with content causes of acts of terrorism or publicly justifying terrorism.”
Here, a little over a month after the publication of the decree, the first case identified administrative block, that is to say without going before a judge of a site internet. Since the end of last week, it is done in ten sites that were the subject of a blocking measure, said Monday the Ministry of the Interior projihad five sites (jihadmin.com, mujahida89.wordpress.com , is0lamnation.blogspot.fr, alhayatmedia.wordpress.com and islamic-news.info) and five sites hosting child pornography, the lock is planned for the orientation and programming law for the performance of Homeland Security (Loppsi 2) in 2011.
This is the Central fight against crime related to information technology and communication (OCLCTIC), the police service that is responsible in particular the platform Pharos report, which drew up the list, under the supervision of a judge designated by the Commission Nationale Informatique and Freedoms (CNIL). To test the device, the choice fell on sites blocking is not liable to hamper ongoing investigations, and “with no host or identified publisher” , which are required to remove illegal content reported to them. It was therefore requested to Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to these sites and redirect to a specific page. In fact, depending on the sites, ISPs and configuring browsers, some Monday night were still accessible. The device is “evaluation phase” .
First mess
This implementation has also resulted in a first scramble. As indicated by a simple online search in a domain name database, the technical provider of islamic-news.info is none other than the French host OVH. Its founder and technical director, Octave Klaba, is also surprised publicly Monday morning that the company has not received any application for an advance withdrawal to the blockage. The ministry, that is justified ‘ “OVH does not appear anywhere on the site” , and only count the legal … For if OVH declined to disclose more about the subject, Place Beauvau said the host had indeed removed the targeted content
Which nevertheless remains available in the “cache” – memory – Google. If, in addition to blocking, delisting in the search engines has also been the subject of an order, the measure was not yet activated for the ten targeted sites. The procedure is provided with no specific deadline at this stage. As to how many websites could be an administrative block, the ministry reported “several hundred reports” in terms of advocating terrorism, without elaborating on terms of volume or planned schedule.
What about finally connecting data on servers mechanically lead ministry, when a user is redirected to a warning page? On this point, the site Beauvau indicates that the data in question are not separated from ordinary connections to the Interior Ministry’s website. Last February, the CNIL had, in its opinion on the decree on administrative blocking clear that “the current legal framework does not allow the collection or operation by OCLCTIC, connection data users who would be redirected to the interior ministry’s information page “.
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