A Black Day For Internet Freedom In Germany

Several readers including erlehmann and tmk wrote to inform us about the dawning of Internet censorship in Germany under the usual guise of protecting the children. "This week, the two big political parties ruling Germany in a coalition held the final talks on their proposed Internet censorship scheme. DNS queries for sites on a list will be given fake answers that lead to a page with a stop sign. The list itself is maintained by the German federal police (Bundeskriminalamt). A protest movement has formed over the course of the last several months, and over 130K citizens have signed a petition protesting the law. Despite this, and despite criticism from all sides, the two parties sped up the process for the law to be signed on Thursday, June 18, 2009."

Comments

alternative dns servers;

[miruku]

https://www.opendns.com/

http://www.dnsserverlist.org/

Re:alternative dns servers;

[sakdoctor]

apt-get install bind9
127.0.0.1 top of resolv.conf

Any slashdot discussion about DNS will imminently fill up with hundreds of recommendations for opendns.com ...which is fine, but also a bit puzzling.
Don't most of us have at least one linux machine somewhere, where you can put a caching nameserver, then point any windows machines on the LAN to that.

Re:alternative dns servers;

[BenoitRen]

Any slashdot discussion about DNS will imminently fill up with hundreds of recommendations for opendns.com ...which is fine

No, it's not fine to recommend OpenDNS.

Old news for Finland, too

[wolfie123]

We've had this in Finland for a while now, too. See http://lapsiporno.info/english-2008-02-15.html for internet activist Matti Nikki's fight against the debated censorship. OpenDNS is the de facto way to circumvent this censor list. Ironically, his site is blocked by the child porn list by our Keskusrikospoliisi (federal police).

Re:DNS spoofing is just one way to satisfy the law

[0123456]

Given that the whole world is moving to DNSSEC, have fun trying to spoof it two years from now.

Re:Gigaton Fail -

[0100010001010011]

My host forgive me. http://www.exstatic.org.nyud.net:8080/proxybox/.

Again, this is just something I thew together last night when people on Fark (VII threads and counting) were wanting to help but not able to figure out squid.

I would appreciate any feedback or help hardening it or adding features or getting the download size down or etc...

jjarvis98@gmail.com

Re:I know the feeling.

[Hognoxious]

I don't know if you consider the UK a functioning democracy, but recently they rounded up a group of hippies on the grounds that they might be thinking about causing disruption at a power station.

They were then released on bail, the conditions of which were that they weren't allowed to be hippies, weren't allowed to be against power stations, and weren't allowed to talk to anyone who was either a hippy or against power stations. More or less it amounts to house arrest. Without any form of trial or due process.

Note: I don't agree with the aforementioned hippies policy wise. But when they came for the hippies, I didn't speak out...