Hosting Provider Accountability

A story ran on the Inquirer (Inq7.net) about Marine Captain Nicanor Faeldon being virtually untraceable in cyberspace as he is in the jungles of Mindanao (or wherever he really is right now). I would tend to disagree but taking into perspective the expertise of the people in NBI, that might just spell what they can do.

What caught my attention though was the line that states “Only the web host could be traced though the Internet service provider could not be asked to divulge the owner of the site, if he is known at all.”

Is that really true?

This was actually one of my concerns last year when I hosted the Gloriagate tapes and the Hello Garci ringtones for PCIJ. Quite a number of people approached me about the issue that I was walking a very thin line.

I don’t know much about any pertinent laws or the e-Commerce Law but isn’t the website seditious in nature and thus can be ordered by the courts to be shut down?

Just curious actually.

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Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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5 Comments

alfie says:

19 years ago

“I donâ€™t know much about any pertinent laws or the e-Commerce Law but isnâ€™t the website seditious in nature and thus can be ordered by the courts to be shut down?”

Try researching more about “www.angbayan.org”, former online publication of the CPP. It was not ordered by the courts to be shut down but hunted by the authority.
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vern says:

19 years ago

Sounds like the NBI is too incompetent in any cybersecurity investigation.

The only problem I see is that his servers are in the US and I would not know if the Philippines can get subpoenas to get at their server logs. It is hard enough for American authorities to get that right.

Where the website is hosted is totally unrelated to where he is connecting to the internet from. Obviously if he is in the Philippines, he is using a Philippine service. If you can get the logs from his webhost, one can easily find out what service he is using to log into his host, the problem is getting at those logs.

I visited the website and I see nothing wrong with it. Free speech anyone?
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alfie says:

19 years ago

Correct me if I`m wrong, but I as far as I know, there are only few registrar for .ph extension. And from the domain manager, you can see the nameserver of the host.

But the main point is, I don’t see the sense of hunting the host and order to shut down the website. It’s pretty useless because he can publish a website as many as he can, he can publish on blogspot, blogdrive, geocities, i.ph, and even on friendster blog.
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bajar de peso says:

13 years ago

Superb post however , I was wondering if you could write a litte more on this topic? I’d be very thankful if you could elaborate a little bit more. Thanks!
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Augustina Shamburger says:

12 years ago

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