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Even More Restriction For German Internet
tikurion writes "It's only been a few weeks since the law dubbed Zugangserschwerungsgesetz (access impediment law) was passed in the German Parliament despite over 140,000 signatures of people opposed to it. The law will go into effect in mid-October 2009. Now Minister for Family Affairs Ursula von der Leyen implied in an interview that she is planning on extending the reach of the law, claiming '...or else the great Internet is in danger of turning into a lawless range of chaos, where you're allowed to bully, insult, and deceive limitlessly.' More on golem.de via Google translate (here is the German original)."
where you're allowed to bully, insult, and deceive limitlessly.
If this was their goal, there would only need to be one domain on the list.
And also to click the big X in the top right of the screen.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Heaven:
Where the police are British,
The cooks are Italian,
The mechanics are German,
The lovers are French and
It's all organized by the Swiss.
Hell is:
Where the police are German,
The cooks are British,
The Mechanics are French,
The lovers are Swiss and
It's all organized by the Italians.
THL phish sticks
"No Internet for you!"
Anybody want my mod points?
never to move to Germany.
Now Minister for Family Affairs Ursula von der Leyen implied
There shouldn't even be a family affairs department. What families do is their own matter, unless they do something illegal.
Why are the most innocuous sounding positions in government, always the most malevolent?
Minister for Family Affairs
Home secretary
I will literally shit myself if my government appoints a minister of puppies, pink ponies and day old baby ducklings.
Citizens of the world, dark forces are at work in most of our democracies. They plans to get control of a power tool & medium: the internet. Their aim at restoring the "control on information and the oligopolies" of the previous millennium and extending it further any known limits.
Most of them claim, it is to restore "good old values". But the real reason behind all those bigotries is the money my friend!
The fight for freedom as started.
But, the force of the cipher is among us ;-)
Are you ready ?
Will always route around damage.
But citizens of the internet must be willing to help it do so.
Or else the great outdoors is in danger of turning into a lawless range of chaos, where you're allowed to bully, insult, and deceive limitlessly.
This german woman must be viewing the internet through some sort of time portal; it's already a piece of crap!
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
We have around here in europe a lot of social politic. Not only in hand out, but also in infrastructure. This ministry shortened to family ministery (sorry german) actually do quite a bit more , senior, civil duty, family, kids etc... For example the previous ministry made law to enhance kindergarten infrastructure to allow much more (250K) young kids to have a kindergarten available. And I pass many other stuff. The problem is here they are doing stuff which displease us (censorship) and IMHO should not be in their porfolio. Mind you, at least they can show full breast or half breast on TV here around. Other culture, other taboo.
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Restricting the access to a commit a crime would be like restricting one's ability to drive on a highway because one might decide to be using it for to rob a bank.
Ich habe kein Versicherung für meinem Polenüberfallenmittelstoffshrankwagen!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I think their government might not only have an access impediment, but also a speech impediment with a name like "Zugangserschwerungsgesetz".
Heil, German lawmakers!!! Über Alles!!!
Everyone on 4chan understands 4chan. Don't worry about them.
the great Internet is in danger
Pity she can't see that the threat is from people like her.
turning into a lawless range of chaos
In other words, a free and uncensored global platform for communication
I am, and that is sufficient.
It's not already?
ROMANES EUNT DOMUS
TYPICAL GERMAN politics, come up with a screwy law, and make it even more screwy! So I guess what I can take from this is that child porn is ok to see at a university, but not a corporation or large ISP... Yeah that makes sense, really does...
I guess they introduced these exceptions because implementing the censorship infrastructure on the ISP side takes a great deal of time & money. Obviously only big ISPs can afford that ;)
The big parties of the German government once again proved that they're just doing what they want and not what the citizens want! That's why I'm going to vote for the Piratenpartei (Pirate party) on September 27.
Yes, it's a shame small providers don't have to block. :D
I would like to see Wikileaks becoming an ISP for one person, just to get a fresh blocking list daily.
Das computenmachine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Is easy schnappen der springwerk, blownfusen, und poppenoorken mit spittzensparken. Ist nicht fur gewerken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken signtseeren keepen hands in das pockets--relaxen und watch das blinkenlights.
If it rains in KÃln, it drops in Brussels. I hope this won't come over to our regions as so often is the case.
Zugangserschwerungsgesetz...
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Just keep giving them some more free advertising.
Completely unrelated, I'd also see some legislation allowing the Federal Constitutional Courts to hand out savage beatings with the clue stick to everyone involved in drafting and passing unconstitutional laws. And they should broadcast it on TV, too.
"We need a debate about the right level of freedom, democracy and human rights on the Internet" said von der Leyen.
About time that the government decides what the right level of democracy and humans rights is. Too much of a good thing is very bad, as we all know.
The German government already banned a couple of small parties from taking part in the upcoming elections, thus impeding the right to vote. But people are still free to bitch about the results. Freedom enough, don't you think?
She has been recently discovering the internet, before she was living happily in Barbieland playing with her Disney ponies.
The wakeup call was simply too hard for her.
Seriously, if you read interviews with her, that woman is the german equivalent to Sarah Palin. Stupid dangerous outrigt arrogant and does not even listen one second to anyone!
You are misinformed here. The law the scope of which von der Leyen wants to extend currently is about blocking child porn, and
certainly fits that description exactly.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
I'm on OSX, you insensitive clod.
Perhaps the US should preemptively kick Germany's ass again. You know, just in case.
Oh, you mean the politicians should have paid more attention to that 0,17% of the population? They have a job to do, it's called democracy.
For the record, anything that limits, tracks, or controls public access to information and the Internet is Bad in my book.
If anything, I would lament that only a mere fraction of a percent give enough of a damn to sign their name against it.
"Good news, everyone!"
Is this that stupid bill where they wanted to display stop signs before you access pornographiic websites?
As if a stop sign would prevent anybody. This is so very, very brain dead.
Freedom means different to different people. To a lot of people in the world "freedom" is not a religion, but just something that is nice to have, sometimes. I don't expect the Freedom Fanatics to understand this, let alone accept it, but it is true none the less. I also expect to get modded down for saying so - by those very "Freedom Fighters".
So, to a majority of Germans it makes sense - it seems very clear that the internet has indeed already become a cesspit with a very few gems floating around in it. To a lot of people the rather abstract benefits of "freedom of speech" are simply not important enough to outweigh more mundane concerns, like not being harrassed by the idiots that seem to dominate everything on the internet.
The internet is indeed a powerful tool for communication and it can be used to promote freedom and bring valuable information to everybody and so on. But there is a huge difference between the freedom you enjoy in a society where people treat each other with respect and dignity, and the freedom you have in a lawless wilderness, where you can expect every person you meet to be an enemy. I know which one I'd choose.
In all honesty, I couldn't understand any of them (the germans) anyways.
Hell, Google can barely understand them...
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Google translate on wiki page - http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugangserschwerungsgesetz
The law on obstruction of access to child pornographic content in communication networks (access aggravation Act - ZugErschwG) aims to provide access to Web sites with depictions of sexual activity by and against children...
- Dan
"or else the great Internet is in danger of turning into a lawless range of chaos, where you're allowed to bully, insult, and deceive limitlessly."
And clearly the government doesn't want it's monopoly on all of the above jeopardised.
It's called 12chan, and it's more not-worksafe than 4chan. Far, far more not-worksafe.
this is what you have to expect from a party which is mostly elected by over 60 year old http://stat.tagesschau.de/wahlarchiv/eu/waehler-nach-altersgruppen.html pensioners http://stat.tagesschau.de/wahlarchiv/eu/waehler-nach-taetigkeit.html
> Nobody's forcing them to surf around the Internet at random
Spam is invasive though.
I'm fine with them jailing fraudsters.
Curiously, "von der Leyen" sounds surprisingly similar to "von den Laien", or "of the laymen". A trademark of incompetence!
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It happens in most countries, though it's referred to as "libel". German laws are somewhat more stringent, but it's the same concept. Germans also have been bombarded with tales of cyber-bullying in the media, so the public perception is at the moment skewed.
I think the media conglomerates have played a major role, in first hyping tales of online child pornography to create a feeling of crisis, now in pushing stories of online addiction and cyber-bullying. I have a sneaking suspicion that they see the internet as competition, as breaking the grip they had on media, that they see censorship laws as helping them retain their role as gatekeepers.
I think most Germans haven't really considered what they are getting into by allowing the government decide what you can see or not. They don't realise how this places them in the same boat as the Iranians and the Chinese, trusting too much that the government won't accidentally block legitimate content. Others who don't have an online connection (like my in-laws) think the internet is a big scary threat anyways, so any sort of censorship is a Good Thing. They still have the "as long as it doesn't affect me" mentality.
This is exactly why I will vote for the Pirate Party at the next election.
I don't agree with some of the stuff the Pirate Party stands for but I absolutely don't agree with anything the CDU, SPD or any of the other major political parties stand for.
Everyone who buys Wild Hunt will receive 16 specially prepared DLCs absolutely for free, regardless of platform.
Umm... Germans technically gifted? Trains running on time? Cops respected by thugs?
Where's that magical land you're talking about and how comes it's named like that really existing country called Germany? Isn't it hard to keep those two apart when they have the same name?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
In my German view, the people over here like the law, because they do not understand it. The propaganda that 'something is done to protect the children' works. People have been convinced by repeating lies over and over again, that (a) on the Internet, you stumble across filth everywhere, so the children must be protected, (b) the new law helps protect the children. Obviously (to the people on /. at least) both (a) and (b) are plain lies. But this is what people think and, therefore, they like this law. They have no idea of the implications, let alone the technical problems if the implementation. The internet is not part of their lives, it's still more like a misty, dangerous dungeon to most, so they do not understand how bad this is.
So I think this is not about Germans and the WWII or anything that deep, but simply the propaganda of modern populist politicians who influenced public opinion.
Zugangserschwerungsgesetz
This eerily and shockingly reminds me of a poem about nazi regime I hears years ago (in german !!) that went something like this:
- when they came for the jews, I did not protest for I was no jew
- when they came for the gypsies, I did not protest for I was no gypsy
- when they came for the mentally diseased, I did not protest for I was not mentally diseased
- now they are coming for me, but there is no-one left to protest
let me try to adapt this to the current situation:
- when they closed down the child pornography sites, I did not bother for I did not care
- when they closed down the right wing extremists sites, I did not bother because I am not a right wing extremist
- when they closed down the web sites of the opposition, I did not bother, because I am not of the opposition
- when they closed down all my sites, the general public could not be bothered
we are quickly and frighteningly descending to an orwellian state where the gouvernment dictates what we are allowed to see.
note: I do not have any sites, but hat is irrelevant
Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 2009, when Germans abandoned the practice.
Billy Brown rides on. Yolanda Green bypasses Gary White.
An interesting book exploring this topic is Crabwalk (Im Krebsgang, in German) by Gunter Grass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crabwalk
While written in the early years of the internet, it revolves around an anti-semetic website and two chat room visiters arguing in the persona of Nazi and Jew. It's a very interesting examination into this haunting piece of their past that the Germans seem to be trapped in. No matter how much I have studied it, I don't think I'll ever be able to (as an American) understand how this cycle keeps repeating. However, there's no doubt that it's there, and that the German people will be haunted by it for some time, if not forever.
Write your representatives! Repeal the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics!
Just make the Internet illegal or too expensive for the the regular folks. We all know it's only populated by consumers of child porn and pirates.
"The Brady Bunch is back...working homicide"
The internet is different than all information media we had until now (books, newspapers, tv):
1. the information remains there for a very long time
2. it's very easy to search and to share the the information
3. usually the information is not edited by a group with some social responsibilities
So, I think that we need some new rules for publishing information on the internet.
This is just summer theater. Other news of the day were a guy who's been put in a train while sleeping on his bed and the fact that Steve Jobs walks to work.
Many constitutional law experts, including some former Bundesverfassungsrichter (supreme court judges) have said on several occasions that this law will not pass the constitutional assessment of the Bundesverfassungsgericht (supreme court), for many reasons (being not formally correct, being uneffective, abridging basic rights etc.) Everyone is waiting for the law to come into force, since only then everyone is allowed to appeal against it. At first, it should be August 1st, but then the government noticed they needed to show it to the EU commission first. Now it's November 1st. Funny thing is, that since the law did not pass the first of three required parliamentary readings, it most likely will never come into effect; right now, it hasn't even been signed by the president. If it will ever come into force, you can expect a mass legal dispute. Long story short: we got this one under control.
Hahaha, trains running on time. So funny!
Tell that to the citizen of Berlin, where 2/3 of the S-Bahn trains had to be pulled for safety concerns, because the company saved money on safety procedures in an effort to make the mother corporation ready for the stock market.
You should question your stereotypes.
Free Manning, jail Obama.
It is costly and difficult to police things, especially the Internet. Treating everyone like a criminal is the easy solution, in theory. You can see this in action in many forms, including child support and drm...
Hitler would be proud.
So, for those who put great faith in government as the solution to just about anything, I submit to you that government needs to be in check all of the time. It needs to be restricted and it needs to submit to the people of a country, not the other way around. This type of censorship is just the opposite. Life without freedom is no life at all. As they say in the great state of New Hampshire, "Live free or die!"
-> Sometimes, you just gotta break free from the shackles of proprietary code.
For those of you that may have heard of "A Black Day for Internet Freedom in Germany" from this /. article -> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/16/1657255/A-Black-Day-For-Internet-Freedom-In-Germany ?
I have a way around your "woes", & one that will not get you DNS port 53 udp logged either, & it's VERY SIMPLE to do, using a custom HOSTS file!
1.) Find the IP addresses (ping'ing them will get you this usually) of your favorite websites (even IF they are "banned/restricted" by your ISP/BSP & their DNS servers)
2.) Enter their "IP Address-to-URL" equation/resolution into your local HOSTS file (typically located under %WinDi5%\system32\drivers\etc )
This will stop your making requests to ANY DNS server, having YOU act as your OWN DNS SERVER (more-or-less)!
(AND, thus, it first "proofs you" vs. DNS request logging over port 53 udp... plus, this SECONDLY actually makes you F A S T E R online, since you do not "burn time" calling out to remote DNS servers for URL-to-IP Address resolutions (which take between 30-60ns roundtrip to complete - this is what you dispense with, & it makes you THAT MUCH FASTER online))
OH, & "nice part also", is that IF a remote DNS server "goes down" (or is dns poisoned etc. et al)? YOU STILL CAN REACH THOSE FAV. SITES OF YOURS!
APK
P.S.=> Entries like these go into your HOSTS files for this (you'd be advised to "ping" each URL from YOUR END, as your values may not come out the same as mine do here in example HOSTS files entries for "hardcoded favorite sites" in a HOSTS file):
128.103.64.79 stopbadware.org
128.121.95.55 whois.net
206.171.41.22 www.borland.com
207.46.19.190 www.microsoft.com
207.46.196.125 technet2.microsoft.com
207.46.199.248 technet.microsoft.com
207.46.225.250 support.microsoft.com
208.48.161.101 www.tomshardware.com
208.48.161.102 tomshardware.com
208.67.217.231 www.google.com
209.123.109.175 dslreports.com
213.150.41.226 secunia.com
213.150.41.226 www.secunia.com
4.79.142.200 grc.com
63.175.76.152 borland.com
64.233.187.99 google.com
65.214.39.56 ask.com
65.214.39.56 www.ask.com
66.35.45.201 sans.org
66.51.119.83 www.multiproxy.org
66.94.229.254 altavista.com
66.94.229.254 www.altavista.com
67.208.32.199 windowsitpro.com
67.208.32.199 www.windowsitpro.com
69.64.185.84 www.siteadvisor.com
72.3.254.86 eset.com
72.3.254.86 www.eset.com
74.125.93.191 ddanchev.blogspot.com
75.125.82.140 dnsstuff.com
75.126.23.34 publicproxyservers.com
76.74.9.19 packetstormsecurity.org
87.106.2.233 spybotupdates.com
87.106.2.233 www.spybotupdates.com
89.238.64.39 safer-networking.org
89.238.64.39 www.safer-networking.org
Enjoy - it works (especially for German Folks that have been getting restricted online as of late)! apk
Read up on the guy and just WHY he is hosting his current show the way he is. BECAUSE HE WAS CENSORED OF THE AIRWAVES.
No country that throws a hissy fit over a nipple has the right to lecture anyone else on free speech.
American TV is the most bleeped tv in the western world and you critize others? Hypocrasy, you are doing it right.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
For those of you that may have heard of "A Black Day for Internet Freedom in Germany" from this /. article -> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/16/1657255/A-Black-Day-For-Internet-Freedom-In-Germany ?
I have a way around your "woes", & one that will not get you DNS port 53 udp logged either, in case your ISP/BSP (or gov't./police even) blocks out your fav. sites online, & it's VERY SIMPLE to do, using a custom HOSTS file & a text editor (like notepad.exe, but pay attention below to notepad.exe .txt extension warning I note below though)!
----
1.) Find the IP addresses (ping'ing them will get you this usually) of your favorite websites (even IF they are "banned/restricted" by your ISP/BSP & their DNS servers)
2.) Enter their "IP Address-to-URL" equation/resolution into your local HOSTS file (typically located under %WinDi5%\system32\drivers\etc ), using notepad.exe (be sure to save it as type ALL FILES though, because notepad.exe defaults to a .txt extension, & the HOSTS file HAS NO EXTENSION like .txt in its name)...
----
This will stop your making requests to ANY DNS server, having YOU act as your OWN DNS SERVER (more-or-less)!
(AND, thus, it first "proofs you" vs. DNS request logging over port 53 udp... plus, this SECONDLY actually makes you F A S T E R online, since you do not "burn time" calling out to remote DNS servers for URL-to-IP Address resolutions (which take between 30-60ns roundtrip to complete - this is what you dispense with, & it makes you THAT MUCH FASTER online))
OH, & "nice part also", is that IF a remote DNS server "goes down" (or is dns poisoned, OR BLOCKED OUT (per this article & the url I posted above), etc. et al)? YOU STILL CAN REACH THOSE FAV. SITES OF YOURS!
You MAY have to alter this in your registry though, but not always needed:
HOW TO ALTER NAME RESOLUTION ORDER IN WINDOWS:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/139270/EN-US
----
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ServiceProvider]
"LocalPriority"=dword:00000005
"HostsPriority"=dword:00000006
"DnsPriority"=dword:00000007
"NetbtPriority"=dword:00000008
(LOWER NUMBERS HERE = GREATER PRIORITY)
----
As you can see, I give my LOCAL DNS Cache the greatest priority (because it has my HOSTS file loaded into it @ system startup (IP stack startup, actually)), & THEN, my custom adbanner blocking/speedup fav sites (which this post is showing folks how to do, & yes, it works) is next, & then my ISP/BSP's DNS servers, & lastly NetBios/WINS stuff (which I just plain do NOT use, because I have no LanManager style network running here, ONLY Tcp/IP)
APK
P.S.=> Entries like these go into your HOSTS files for this (you'd be advised to "ping" each URL from YOUR END, as your IP Address values MAY NOT COME OUT THE SAME AS MINE HAVE HERE, in ny example HOSTS files entries below, for "hardcoded favorite sites" in a HOSTS file, in the format of IPAddress(single space)URL, & cr+lf means an ENTER keypress, as shown below):
128.103.64.79 stopbadware.org
128.121.95.55 whois.net
206.171.41.22 www.borland.com
207.46.19.190 www.microsoft.com
207.46.196.125 technet2.microsoft.com
207.46.199.248 technet.microsoft.com
207.46.225.250 support.microsoft.com
208.48.161.101 www.tomshardware.com
208.48.161.102 tomshardware.com
208.67.217.231 www.google.com
209.123.109.175 dslreports.com
213.150.41.226 secunia.com
213.150.41.226 www.secunia.com
4.79.142.200 grc.com
63.175.76.152 borland.com
64.233.187.99 google.com
65.214.39.56 ask.com
65.214.39.56 www.ask.com
66.35.45.201 sans.org
66.51.119.83 w
For those of you that may have heard of "A Black Day for Internet Freedom in Germany" from this /. article here recently of -> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/16/1657255/A-Black-Day-For-Internet-Freedom-In-Germany ?
I have a way around your "woes", & one that will not get you DNS port 53 udp logged either, in case your ISP/BSP (or gov't./police even) blocks out your fav. sites online, & it's VERY SIMPLE to do, using a custom HOSTS file & a text editor (like notepad.exe, but pay attention below to notepad.exe .txt extension warning I note below though)!
----
1.) Find the IP addresses (ping'ing them will get you this usually) of your favorite websites (even IF they are "banned/restricted" by your ISP/BSP & their DNS servers)
2.) Enter their "IP Address-to-URL" equation/resolution into your local HOSTS file (typically located under %WinDi5%\system32\drivers\etc ), using notepad.exe (be sure to save it as type ALL FILES though, because notepad.exe defaults to a .txt extension, & the HOSTS file HAS NO EXTENSION like .txt in its name)...
----
This will stop your making requests to ANY DNS server, having YOU act as your OWN DNS SERVER (more-or-less)!
(AND, thus, it first "proofs you" vs. DNS request logging over port 53 udp... plus, this SECONDLY actually makes you F A S T E R online, since you do not "burn time" calling out to remote DNS servers for URL-to-IP Address resolutions (which take between 30-60ns roundtrip to complete - this is what you dispense with, & it makes you THAT MUCH FASTER online))
OH, & "nice part also", is that IF a remote DNS server "goes down" (or is dns poisoned, OR BLOCKED OUT (per this article & the url I posted above), etc. et al)? YOU STILL CAN REACH THOSE FAV. SITES OF YOURS!
You MAY have to alter this in your registry though, but not always needed:
HOW TO ALTER NAME RESOLUTION ORDER IN WINDOWS:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/139270/EN-US
----
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ServiceProvider]
"LocalPriority"=dword:00000005
"HostsPriority"=dword:00000006
"DnsPriority"=dword:00000007
"NetbtPriority"=dword:00000008
(LOWER NUMBERS HERE = GREATER PRIORITY)
----
As you can see, I give my LOCAL DNS Cache the greatest priority (because it has my HOSTS file loaded into it @ system startup (IP stack startup, actually)), & THEN, my custom adbanner blocking/speedup fav sites (which this post is showing folks how to do, & yes, it works) is next, & then my ISP/BSP's DNS servers, & lastly NetBios/WINS stuff (which I just plain do NOT use, because I have no LanManager style network running here, ONLY Tcp/IP)
APK
P.S.=> Entries like these go into your HOSTS files for this (you'd be advised to "ping" each URL from YOUR END, as your IP Address values MAY NOT COME OUT THE SAME AS MINE HAVE HERE, in ny example HOSTS files entries below, for "hardcoded favorite sites" in a HOSTS file, in the format of IPAddress(single space)URL(cr+lf), & cr+lf means an ENTER keypress @ the end of each line, as shown below):
128.103.64.79 stopbadware.org
128.121.95.55 whois.net
206.171.41.22 www.borland.com
207.46.19.190 www.microsoft.com
207.46.196.125 technet2.microsoft.com
207.46.199.248 technet.microsoft.com
207.46.225.250 support.microsoft.com
208.48.161.101 www.tomshardware.com
208.48.161.102 tomshardware.com
208.67.217.231 www.google.com
209.123.109.175 dslreports.com
213.150.41.226 secunia.com
213.150.41.226 www.secunia.com
4.79.142.200 grc.com
63.175.76.152 borland.com
64.233.187.99 google.com
65.214.39.56 ask.com
65.214.39.56 www.ask
For those of you that may have heard of "A Black Day for Internet Freedom in Germany" from this /. article -> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/16/1657255/A-Black-Day-For-Internet-Freedom-In-Germany ?
I have a way around your "woes", & one that will not get you DNS port 53 udp logged either, in case your ISP/BSP (or gov't./police even) blocks out your fav. sites online, & it's VERY SIMPLE to do, using a custom HOSTS file & a text editor (like notepad.exe, but pay attention below to notepad.exe .txt extension warning I note below though)!
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1.) Find the IP addresses (ping'ing them will get you this usually) of your favorite websites (even IF they are "banned/restricted" by your ISP/BSP & their DNS servers)
2.) Enter their "IP Address-to-URL" equation/resolution into your local HOSTS file (typically located under %WinDi5%\system32\drivers\etc ), using notepad.exe (be sure to save it as type ALL FILES though, because notepad.exe defaults to a .txt extension, & the HOSTS file HAS NO EXTENSION like .txt in its name)...
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This will stop your making requests to ANY DNS server, having YOU act as your OWN DNS SERVER (more-or-less)!
(AND, thus, it first "proofs you" vs. DNS request logging over port 53 udp... plus, this SECONDLY actually makes you F A S T E R online, since you do not "burn time" calling out to remote DNS servers for URL-to-IP Address resolutions (which take between 30-60ns roundtrip to complete - this is what you dispense with, & it makes you THAT MUCH FASTER online))
OH, & "nice part also", is that IF a remote DNS server "goes down" (or is dns poisoned, OR BLOCKED OUT (per this article & the url I posted above), etc. et al)? YOU STILL CAN REACH THOSE FAV. SITES OF YOURS!
You MAY have to alter this in your registry though, but not always needed:
HOW TO ALTER NAME RESOLUTION ORDER IN WINDOWS:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/139270/EN-US
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ServiceProvider]
"LocalPriority"=dword:00000005
"HostsPriority"=dword:00000006
"DnsPriority"=dword:00000007
"NetbtPriority"=dword:00000008
(LOWER NUMBERS HERE = GREATER PRIORITY)
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As you can see, I give my LOCAL DNS Cache the greatest priority (because it has my HOSTS file loaded into it @ system startup (IP stack startup, actually)), & THEN, my custom adbanner blocking/speedup fav sites (which this post is showing folks how to do, & yes, it works) is next, & then my ISP/BSP's DNS servers, & lastly NetBios/WINS stuff (which I just plain do NOT use, because I have no LanManager style network running here, ONLY Tcp/IP)
APK
P.S.=> Entries like these go into your HOSTS files for this (you'd be advised to "ping" each URL from YOUR END, as your IP Address values MAY NOT COME OUT THE SAME AS MINE HAVE HERE, in ny example HOSTS files entries below, for "hardcoded favorite sites" in a HOSTS file, in the format of IPAddress(single space)URL(cr+lf), & cr+lf means an ENTER keypress @ the end of each line, as shown below):
128.103.64.79 stopbadware.org
128.121.95.55 whois.net
206.171.41.22 www.borland.com
207.46.19.190 www.microsoft.com
207.46.196.125 technet2.microsoft.com
207.46.199.248 technet.microsoft.com
207.46.225.250 support.microsoft.com
208.48.161.101 www.tomshardware.com
208.48.161.102 tomshardware.com
208.67.217.231 www.google.com
209.123.109.175 dslreports.com
213.150.41.226 secunia.com
213.150.41.226 www.secunia.com
4.79.142.200 grc.com
63.175.76.152 borland.com
64.233.187.99 google.com
65.214.39.56 ask.com
65.214.39.56 www.ask.com
66.35.45.
Give it 500 years, and it will be.
Populus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur...
"Force shits upon Reason's back." - Poor Richard's Almanac
first corrections:
- the nickname is Zensursula Zensur + Ursulla
- Miss Education misleading Head of Ministry of Education is Ms. Annette Schavan
Both are Members of Christian Democratic Party , which have things in common with the American Republicans
(those guys don't retreat upon caught lying if it's grounded on some kind "white lie according to party line")
Opinion on restrictions of free speech:
Laws here are mostly about style use no swear words and you are mostly out of trouble;
example: there are the special stricter laws dealing with insulting officers: A policeman lost his case wanting to sue because he was being called
forester (the uniform was still the green one (:- )
better example (melody no better than daily soup intro)
about protest against our Zernsursula with text lines like: Did you purchase your Minister chair on ebay? Or your law from summer clearance sale?
So one example how to through nonsense at even politicians without being fee' d.
In the end it makes no substantial difference to the US
for example the Minister of the Interior (Wolgang Schäuble) tries constantly to both undermine and change our constitution,
but you won' t see any tv station airing someone saying he should be prosecuted by Verfassungsschutz (which is headed by the Minister of the interior).
It is sad that you see Freedom of Expression, one of the Human Rights, as a privilege that can be taken away instead of an inalienable right.
But Freedom of Expression clearly can be taken away (or not conceded in the first place). Try going to China and publically advocating for the rights of Tibetans and Urghurs.
The very concept of an 'inalienable right' is an ahistorical fairytale. 'Rights' are concessions that, for the most part, have had to be pried out of the hands of those who hold power. To consider them natural and inaliable, though it can be inspiring, can also be to take them for granted and to invite complacency in holding power to account.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
sorry, i don't get it ... nothing of it!
imho we don't need no additional law's for the internet, because everything needed is already there, isn't it?
we have law's against cp, fraud, bad talking about other persons ... and all these law's apply to the things you do in the internet.
i don't like von der leyen ... i don't like scheuble (head of internal affairs) ... am i the only one who does not vote for them or what
Being that most of my descendants came from Europe and some of them came from Germany. All I have to say is that If my ancestors wanted to be European they would have stayed but laws like this remind me of why they left such a God Forsaken Land
Paul E. Bahre
Fuck 4chan and fuck encyclopedia dramatica, somethingawful, and all those members of "Anonymous". I hope they DO get their asses kicked somehow. They are just Internet bullies who think the exact same way as the new Russian right-wing fascists: racism, sexism, ageism, antisemitism, hate against the weak and suffering. They all suck and should be fucking locked up, and have the shit beat out of them.