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DNS Heavyweights Raise Concern Over DNS Filtering
penciling_in writes "A group of DNS heavyweights have released a paper detailing serious concerns over the proposed DNS filtering requirements included as part of the bill recently introduced in the US Senate named Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 (PROTECT IP Act). The group which includes Paul Vixie, Dan Kaminsky, Steve Crocker, David Dagon and Danny McPherson, have detailed several serious technical and security concerns in the event that the mandated DNS filtering is enacted into law. Dan Kaminsky says: 'There are efforts afoot to manipulate the DNS on a remarkably large scale. The American PROTECT IP act contains several reasonable and well targeted remedies to copyright infringement. One of these remedies, however, is to leverage the millions of recursive DNS servers that act as accelerators for Internet traffic, and convert them into censors for domain names in an effort to block content.'"
Didn't anyone warn them that just blocking a domain name doesn't work?
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And what's to stop people from using a DNS server that's outside the US? Or even just punching in the IP address directly?
I guess it's time to get a read done of this nonsense and the see if I can't straighten my own elected officials out about how the tech works... *sigh*
I think you greatly overestimate the technological literacy of the average American. Most people aren't going to have a clue how to change their DNS servers, but even for those who do understand how to get around such restrictions, this is still disturbing. This is just a way for government to get its foot in the door. Soon, they'll be mandating to ISPs which DNS servers their clients are allowed to use, and what IP ranges are 'legal' to access on the internet. Maybe I should just take off the tinfoil hat and relax, but I can't see how government getting involved in legislating the internet in ANY way is a good thing.
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a HOSTS-tard.
I'm curious how often the HOSTS-tard updates the hundreds of millions of entries in his gigabytes-large HOSTS file
They don't matter. They haven't paid the requisite Campaign Contribution necessary for their opinions to be considered.
This root key would have to be generated and signed in some kind of ceremony, maybe with people wearing viking hats and carrying swords and torches, and the resulting public validation key would have to be published on the web and managed according to RFC 5011 so that it can roll forward throughout all time. Videos from this ceremony would go up on YouTube.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110318_on_mandated_content_blocking_in_the_domain_name_system/
Well, y'all can stop worrying now. It appears the Protect IP bill won't even be making it to the senate floor, thanks to Senator Ron Wyden (Ore). Check out the story over on Ars http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/sen-ron-wyden-to-place-a-hold-on-the-protect-ip-act.ars
Sending spam is legal, ethical, and basically a good thing
Yeah, good luck. We went from Net Neutrality to this! With Net Neutrality they were saying, "Oh, leave it alone, it works fine. Don't force companies to not favor one site over another with premium QOS bandwidth." Now they're saying, "Stick it deep, as deep as possible, into the core of the Internet itself and control it all one record at a time!"
Where are the Libertarians railing against Net Neutrality when you need them to rail against this? If any of you are one, I hope you bring this comparison up LOUD and CLEAR to anti-net neutrality people who are now siding with DNS censoring that they are hypocrites. Either you mean it when you say you are hands off, or you don't.
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Between your writing style, unwillingness to log in and be moderated, and your insistence on ignoring what was actually said for what you want to read, you have made yourself the Slashdot equivalent of a street person on the corner jumping up and down, foaming at the mouth, and screaming that The End is Nigh with one hand down your pants and the other flailing incoherently at arm's length at all times.
If you don't see that your persistence in the face of this situation makes you a nut, you're utterly hopeless.
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“In December of last year I placed a hold on similar legislation, commonly called COICA, because I felt the costs of the legislation far outweighed the benefits. After careful analysis of the Protect IP Act, or PIPA, I am compelled to draw the same conclusion. I understand and agree with the goal of the legislation, to protect intellectual property and combat commerce in counterfeit goods, but I am not willing to muzzle speech and stifle innovation and economic growth to achieve this objective. At the expense of legitimate commerce, PIPA’s prescription takes an overreaching approach to policing the Internet when a more balanced and targeted approach would be more effective. The collateral damage of this approach is speech, innovation and the very integrity of the Internet.
"The Internet represents the shipping lane of the 21st century. It is increasingly in America’s economic interest to ensure that the Internet is a viable means for American innovation, commerce, and the advancement of our ideals that empower people all around the world. By ceding control of the Internet to corporations through a private right of action, and to government agencies that do not sufficiently understand and value the Internet, PIPA represents a threat to our economic future and to our international objectives. Until the many issues that I and others have raised with this legislation are addressed, I will object to a unanimous consent request to proceed to the legislation."
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Nah, you're just an idiot trying to look like you know something. Sadly, glomming together bits and pieces of things you've heard here and there into walls of text - the SAME walls of text you repeat verbatim every chance you get... does not make you look smart. It makes you look like a total moronic idiot. Just figured you should know that before you repeat this nonsense the next time DNS, security, malware or whatever else comes up and you get the idea to repost the same wall-o-text post as the last few times.
But at least you were smart enough to not log in so as not to damage your karma.
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