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Paraguay Telco Hijacks DNS Before Elections

Posted by kdawson on from the can't-say-that-here dept.

MrJones writes "In Paraguay we are at T-9 days to national elections. The ruling party has been in power for nearly 61 years (including more than 30 years of dictatorship). Now the state-run ADSL company is hijacking the DNS nationwide of a site that denounces the corruption in the party."

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  1. Down with goverment censorship by bumof2005 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's amazing how easily entire countries of people can be manipulated. China is in the spotlight now but it is nothing compared to countries like North Korea who will get thrown in jail if they have a cell phone for fear that people will actually figure out that nothing they are told is true.

  2. TOR by explosivejared · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Get the word out about tor. Vidalia is an easy to use controller. This is the exact sort of time when a network and protocol like onion routing is extremely valuable.

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  3. Re:No oil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, the US is about to open a military base in Paraguay, to have a tight leash on Bolivian oil fields, I guess.

    So, I think we will side with the ruling party in this one.

  4. Dig output by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting


    http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/5845/extenso2rk7.png

  5. Re:They should host the site on high-profile domai by Portal1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually they don't have control over the media

    Most news papers are in the hands of rich people.
    They are more in favor of the blue party here.

    This incident was on television here last night.

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