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The Net Routes Around Censorship In Turkey

Posted by Soulskill on from the working-as-intended dept.

lpress writes: "Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been embarrassed by social media over corruption, vowed yesterday to 'eradicate Twitter.' He followed through by cutting off access, but users soon found work-arounds like posting by email and using VPNs. The hashtag #TwitterOlmadanYaayamam (I can't live without Twitter) quickly rose to the top of Twitter's worldwide trending topics."

82 comments

  1. "I can't live without Twitter" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Yes We Can!

  2. What a fool. by Obijon70 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Haven't these tin pot dictators learned you cant "abolish" the internet? people that want to communicate with each other WILL find a way.

    1. Re:What a fool. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      If your regime is that sensitive to 140 characters perhaps the problem is not twitter?

    2. Re:What a fool. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So far the Internet exists on only one planet. The solution is obvious: Blow up the planet. Haven't these tin pot dictators learned real ambition yet?

    3. Re:What a fool. by Obijon70 · · Score: 1

      Same thing we do every night Pinky. Take over the internet BWAH-HAHAHA..

    4. Re:What a fool. by WaffleMonster · · Score: 1

      If your regime is that sensitive to 140 characters perhaps the problem is not twitter?

      If you write in Turkish is it more like 70 characters after Unicode conversion or does everyone get 140 characters?

    5. Re:What a fool. by TopSpin · · Score: 1

      or does everyone get 140 characters?

      Everyone gets 140 NCF normalized UTF-8 Unicode code points. Characters, iow.

      --
      Lurking at the bottom of the gravity well, getting old
    6. Re:What a fool. by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ... vowed yesterday to 'eradicate Twitter.'

      "In democratic Turkey, Twitter eradicates you, Mr Erdogan!

      I really hope he fails to turn Turkey into an Islamic North Korea.

      --
      Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
    7. Re:What a fool. by wiredlogic · · Score: 1

      It would be pretty difficult since there are constitutional prohibitions on religious extremists and they worship Ataturk far more than Americans do for George Washington.

      --
      I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
    8. Re:What a fool. by iNaya · · Score: 3, Informative

      It's 140 characters, not 140 bytes.

      --
      The Unicode standard is over 20 years old. Why does Slashdot not support it?
    9. Re:What a fool. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      You must be new here.

    10. Re:What a fool. by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 1

      Turkish uses the Latin alphabet, so even in UTF-8 it's mostly single-byte (the letters with diacritics and dotless I are two-byte).

    11. Re:What a fool. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No. He failed already to turn Turkey into an Islamic Country. Turkey is now like Gotham City. Mr Erdogan doesn't know what the internet is. The PM trying to censor the twits about his lawlessness. There is an election next week.

    12. Re:What a fool. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It would be pretty difficult since there are constitutional prohibitions on religious extremists and they worship Ataturk far more than Americans do for George Washington.

      ...but about as much as US Republicans worship Ronald Reagan.

    13. Re:What a fool. by wiredlogic · · Score: 1

      That's Saint Reagan to you liberal scum.

      --
      I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
    14. Re:What a fool. by Greyfox · · Score: 0

      Yeah! Like some sort of... turkey!

      --

      I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?

    15. Re:What a fool. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      You're being overly optimistic. (Or naive. Or an apologist for Turkey.)

      Over the past decade Turkey has seen a steady revival of Islam in their political sphere. And remember, constitutions are open to "interpretation".

      As long as they remain friendly to the West (availability of land in the south & east for US / UK military bases, guaranteed supply of gas from pipelines that cross their territory) there's no one to stop them.

    16. Re:What a fool. by clodeboutique · · Score: 0

      Hotel Murah Di Jakarta : http://www.emkatupang.com/hote...

    17. Re:What a fool. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      the letters with diacritics and dotless I are two-byte

      Actually, half of the Turkish letters with diacritics (öüç) are also in ISO-8859-1, which means that they have a 1-byte UTF-8 representation. There are only a few special characacters (variants of i, g, and s, which I cannot post here).

    18. Re:What a fool. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In some countries they write information in text and html files on to USB drives and swap them with everyone

      This is because lots of people have computers, USB drives are cheap, everyone can read and write text or html, and swapping usb drives on the street is easy and anonymous where the internet is very expensive and watched very closely

    19. Re:What a fool. by sysrammer · · Score: 1

      70. From the wiki...
      "...whose payload length is limited by the constraints of the signaling protocol to precisely 140 octets (140 octets * 8 bits / octet = 1120 bits). Short messages can be encoded using a variety of alphabets: the default GSM 7-bit alphabet, the 8-bit data alphabet, and the 16-bit UCS-2 alphabet.[40] Depending on which alphabet the subscriber has configured in the handset, this leads to the maximum individual short message sizes of 160 7-bit characters, 140 8-bit characters, or 70 16-bit characters. GSM 7-bit alphabet support is mandatory for GSM handsets and network elements,[40] but characters in languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, or Cyrillic alphabet languages (e.g., Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, etc.) must be encoded using the 16-bit UCS-2 character encoding (see Unicode)."

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    20. Re:What a fool. by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 1

      Actually, half of the Turkish letters with diacritics (öüç) are also in ISO-8859-1

      True.

      which means that they have a 1-byte UTF-8 representation

      Not true. Most of those letters have codepoints between U+0080 and U+00FF, and UTF-8 is only single-byte for codepoints below U+0080 (i.e. ASCII).

  3. Subverting censorship. by Forbo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People ask why I would ever want to run a Tor exit node, this is a perfect example.

    1. Re:Subverting censorship. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Have a nice chat with the guys from Homeland Security.

      [posted from China and freedom]

    2. Re:Subverting censorship. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Would Tails https://tails.boum.org/ with the task?

  4. A Success of the Internet by Oysterville · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One of the places where the Internet truly succeeds is by giving everyone a voice, thereby creating a watchdog effect that mass media has failed at themselves. Granted, not many use their "voice" for a worthy purpose, but those that do may never have been heard if it weren't for this medium.

  5. The workaround by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Domain: sliced.tr - that's how you get around it.

  6. Streisand effect by samuel.progin · · Score: 2

    I was not following up closely what was going on in Turkey... The move of trying to cover these allegations brought them up in the spotlight. Wonderful.

    1. Re:Streisand effect by nomad63 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      In Turkish, there is a saying:

      In Turkish, "Eceli gelen it, cami duvarina iser." which can roughly be translated as, "The dog, whose time to die come, goes and pees on the wall of the mosque (desecrates the holy grounds, punishable by death in sharia law or something like that).

      Mullah tayyip is dropping plunkers in the middle of the prayer hall. But, don;t get your hopes too high, He will defect to US when he no longer is able to suppress all the people in Turkiye, as I feel, an uprising is coming very soon. I believe, him and his children, own property somewhere on the Northeastern part of United States.

      --

      __________
      The more I know people, the more I love animals
  7. Can't he just rent a boat? by fustakrakich · · Score: 1

    With a big anchor?

    Doesn't this guy own the phone companies and stuff, like every other tinpot?

    --
    “He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
    1. Re:Can't he just rent a boat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The sad part is phone companies like working for tinpots because they get a cushy monopoly.

  8. DNS block by Berendho · · Score: 2

    He said "I'm going to eradicate Twitter". Then he blocked twitter by changing the DNS on all official Turkey ISPs. I don't know if I should laugh or cry. I think that our own leadership has about the same knowledge of the internet. Any under 30 person could have seen the usefulness of their action. It actually increased traffic to twitter, they broke new user records: http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

    1. Re:DNS block by MtViewGuy · · Score: 1

      Not going to work when you can use third-party DNS servers like OpenDNS and Google Public DNS. :-)

  9. DNS blacklisting still? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You can mostly get around 'Turkish Censorship' (and Italian censorship too for that matter) by changing your DNS to something like 8.8.8.8 - they blacklist DNS entries and that's pretty much it. Granted I moved six months ago and they may have a Great Firewall of Turkey now but I doubt it.

  10. Turkey's corruption extends to the US by nickmalthus · · Score: 0

    Turkey is good at exporting corruption. Sibel Edmonds spilled the dirt on their efforts to bribe US congressmen like Dennis Hastert to deny genocide status to Armenians and help Turkey become a nuclear state

    --
    If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be-T J
    1. Re:Turkey's corruption extends to the US by sudo · · Score: 1

      That's just politics. Most politicians do it ... smarter ones usually don't get caught and the more affluent the country the more sophisticated the corruption.

      The U.S. Barely makes the top 20 in the Transparency International rankings list (http://www.transparency.org/cpi2013/results).
      Turkey is 50th

  11. Hmm by AlphaBro · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure which I hate more: political corruption, or twitter. Probably twitter.

  12. It is just a DNS block: Change your DNS to 8.8.8.8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is just a simple stupid DNS block.
    Change to your DNS servers to Google DNS (8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4) or OpenDNS (208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220, 208.67.222.220 or 208.67.220.222) and everything is back to normal.

    People are painting 8.8.8.8 over Erdogans election posters all over Turkey :-)

    Classic case of the Streisand effect !

  13. Turkish president circumvented as well by dutchwhizzman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The president of Turkey tweeted after the block that it is wrong to block an entire website but that at the most single accounts should be blocked. Considering that the president is a member of the same political party as the prime minister that ordered this, that is about the biggest vote against confidence a prime minister can get.

    --
    I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
  14. "I don't care what the international community thi by Phusion · · Score: 2

    I loved reading the comment that whats-his-face was going to "wipe out" twitter and that he didn't care what the international community thought-- he was just asking to get circumvented. Oh well, hopefully we don't see a complete drop in Internet communications for the whole country, like we did in '11-'12. With any luck we'll get less oppressive/corrupt regime's when they learn they can't censor the Internet as well as they thought they could.

    --
    640k ought to be enough for anyone.
  15. Re:This is what you get by nomad63 · · Score: 2

    Your ignorance is blinding my eyes. Americans calling Turkiye as Turkey, doesn't necessarily equate the quality of those people to that of a stupid bird. Not untill too long ago, Beijing, the capitol of China was Peking.

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    __________
    The more I know people, the more I love animals
  16. Can't Stop the Packets by wjcofkc · · Score: 1

    Considering that the internet/darpanet/packet switching was designed to route it's way long distances through a post nuclear holocaust, with the tools we have now riding on it now, you can't stop the packets, not forever.

    --
    Brought to you by Carl's Junior.
    1. Re:Can't Stop the Packets by allaunjsilverfox2 · · Score: 1

      Considering that the internet/darpanet/packet switching was designed to route it's way long distances through a post nuclear holocaust, with the tools we have now riding on it now, you can't stop the packets, not forever.

      You could if you REALLY wanted to. Broad spectrum radio interference, cut physical lines through out the area, kill any messenger pidgins to prevent RFC 2549 usage, Ban drums to prevent tcp transmission.

      --
      Restore the madness of youth's lechery
  17. Dictators will have more control in the future. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Of course, with the Obama administration giving up all US control of the internet, the dictators will have much more control in their countries.

    1. Re:Dictators will have more control in the future. by mars-nl · · Score: 1

      There is no logic in your statement.

      US giving up control might stop censorship by US government, for example FBI taking down non-US servers.

  18. Re:This is what you get by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Do you know what they call a turkey in Turkey? Hindi... their word for Indian. So, it seems ignorance is global.

  19. Good luck Erdogan by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    We've been trying to eradicate Twitter for years. So far, no luck.

    --
    Have gnu, will travel.
  20. Doesn't know what DNS is. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "... many Turkish news websites published instructions on how to change the domain name settings (DNS) on computers and mobile devices to conceal their geographic whereabouts."

  21. Re:Hosts files override DNSBL easily... apk by ComputersKai · · Score: 1
    It apparently seems the only tech-savvy government officials work in the intelligence departments, where they illicitly perform tasks. But when it comes to designing public service websites, they fall short.

    Still, I have to say, good luck with your censorship. It doesn't work and will only bring more publicity. People in China have been doing this for years.

  22. Unfortunately... by hyades1 · · Score: 2

    ...this is just a nice little lab that will help the NSA figure out how to pick off the low-hanging fruit when THEY decide they want to put a stop to all that nasty free expression stuff.

    --
    I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
  23. Re:Hosts files override DNSBL easily... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Do you shout HOSTS FILES when you cum?

  24. Funniest part's I can do this ALL DAY LONG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Not a DAMN thing they can do about it (lol) & I'll outlast the downmodders easily!

    * :)

    (The PUNY CRETINS here? No skills... & MOST certainly NOT enough to suppress me, & least of all, via puny downmods YET NEVER EVER DISPROVING MY POINTS... I win, as always!)

    Makes me laugh @ the downmodding dolts, it really does... lol, they're WEAK wannabes, nothing more.

    APK

    P.S.=> For me, idiots (unlike most AC posters)? "There is NO spoon..." (get THAT thru your heads - no limits here)... apk

  25. Local hosts files = faster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    + more reliable vs. DNS' faults (Kaminsky flaw redirection).

    NOW - If OpenDNS &/or Google DNS use the latest patches to bind (which 99% of ISP's out there DO NOT HAVE IN PLACE mind you, 5-7++ yrs. after it was out there no less (due to complexity with MX exchange setups iirc))?

    Then, they're better off than default DNS servers from ISP's @ least!

    (Yes, I use OpenDNS as a fallback IF I miss a lookup in local hosts cached in RAM by the local kernelmode diskcaching subsystem, & with my favs. @ the TOP of the file too since I turn off the faulty with large hosts files Windows' local dns clientside usermode slow cache service - that makes up for indexing I lost using the faulty with large hosts files DNS clientside usermode SLOW cache service... saving RAM, CPU cycles, & other forms of I/O + complexity it introduces, using it for other tasks instead, efficiently)...

    APK

    P.S.=> Nice part is (since 24 of my favs. equates to roughly 2-3++ million hosts entries speed equivalence to indexed sorted ones by dns clients, do the math, binary search patterns, or hash)? The MAJORITY of my hosts file = block entries vs. adbanners &/or KNOWN botnet servers + malware serving sites or maliciously scripted ones - I miss a lookup? It's ALL MEMORY BOUND speed (negligible 'speed hit" & blocking banners + doing it locally for resolutions of my fav. sites I spend 99% of my time @ online mind you)?

    Hey - I get LOCAL speed, + reliablity, guaranteed, vs. those faults (plus I use LESS MOVING PARTS, period)... apk

  26. Addendum (DNSSEC on OpenDNS iirc) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What I stated about them using bind patches vs. redirect needs to note my subject-line above (iirc, they have THAT in place on THEIR DNS @ least, iirc, too).

    The ROOT 13 DNS servers ALSO have DNSSEC in place iirc - & for recursion (which even GOOGLE or OpenDNS has to do)? Again - if DNSSEC + latest bind patches (vs. the Kaminsky redirect flaw in DNS) will help them IF Google &/or OpenDNS point to the root 13 for resolutions during recursion.

    It's WHY I supplement hosts with them in fact...

    * HOWEVER - I spend 99% of my time here on /. largely (some in around 5-7 other spots online) - so, I rarely USE other sites... nicest part about "news aggregator sites" imo, is that, along with the fact READERS & REPLIERS give you the "real deal", often BETTER than the source article many times!

    (It's WHY I come here, along with the fact news aggregators dovetail PERFECTLY into my usage of hosts too...)

    APK

    P.S.=> Again - IF I miss a lookup (rare since I spend time on only a limited # of sites online, roughly 24 or so)? No biggie... my hosts is a MEMORY-BOUND (fast) lookup, & IF I MISS?? I hit OpenDNS after (very, VERY rare for me)... apk

  27. Hosts files override DNSBL easily... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    + hosts overcome DNS redirect fauts: How? This (see B) - Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ a faster level (ring 0) vs redundant browser addons (slowing up slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ OS, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization):

    ---

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    (Details of hosts' benefits enumerated in link)

    Summary:

    ---

    A. ) Hosts do more than AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default) + Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse", or Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...

    B. ) Hosts add reliability vs. downed or redirected DNS + secure vs. known malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... w/ less added "moving parts" complexity + room 4 breakdown,

    C. ) Hosts files yield more speed (blocks ads & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote DNS), security (vs. malicious domains serving mal-content + block spam/phish), reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable DNS, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ ISP level + weak vs FastFlux + DynDNS botnets), & anonymity (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's).

    ---

    * Addons are more complex + slowup browsers in message passing (use a few concurrently & see) - Addons slowdown SLOWER usermode browsers layering on MORE: I work w/ what you have in kernelmode, via hosts (A tightly integrated PART of the IP stack itself)

    APK

    P.S.=> * "A fool makes things bigger + more complex: It takes a touch of genius & a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Einstein

    ** "Less is more" = GOOD engineering!

    *** "The premise is, quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work FOR the body, rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen "I AM LEGEND"

    ...apk

  28. Hosts files override DNSBL easily... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ a faster level (ring 0) vs redundant browser addons (slowing up slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ OS, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization):

    ---

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    (Details of hosts' benefits enumerated in link)

    Summary:

    ---

    A. ) Hosts do more than AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default) + Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse", or Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...

    B. ) Hosts add reliability vs. downed or redirected DNS + secure vs. known malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... w/ less added "moving parts" complexity + room 4 breakdown,

    C. ) Hosts files yield more speed (blocks ads & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote DNS), security (vs. malicious domains serving mal-content + block spam/phish), reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable DNS, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ ISP level + weak vs FastFlux + DynDNS botnets), & anonymity (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's).

    ---

    * Addons are more complex + slowup browsers in message passing (use a few concurrently & see) - Addons slowdown SLOWER usermode browsers layering on MORE: I work w/ what you have in kernelmode, via hosts (A tightly integrated PART of the IP stack itself)

    APK

    P.S.=> * "A fool makes things bigger + more complex: It takes a touch of genius & a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Einstein

    ** "Less is more" = GOOD engineering!

    *** "The premise is, quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work FOR the body, rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen "I AM LEGEND"

    ...apk

  29. Hosts files override DNSBL easily... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    + hosts overcome DNS redirect fauts: How? This (see B) - Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ a faster level (ring 0) vs redundant browser addons (slowing up slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ OS, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization):

    ---

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    (Details of hosts' benefits enumerated in link)

    Summary:

    ---

    A. ) Hosts do more than AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default) + Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse", or Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...

    B. ) Hosts add reliability vs. downed or redirected DNS + secure vs. known malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... w/ less added "moving parts" complexity + room 4 breakdown,

    C. ) Hosts files yield more speed (blocks ads & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote DNS), security (vs. malicious domains serving mal-content + block spam/phish), reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable DNS, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ ISP level + weak vs FastFlux + DynDNS botnets), & anonymity (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's).

    ---

    * Addons are more complex + slowup browsers in message passing (use a few concurrently & see) - Addons slowdown SLOWER usermode browsers layering on MORE: I work w/ what you have in kernelmode, via hosts (A tightly integrated PART of the IP stack itself)

    APK

    P.S.=> * "A fool makes things bigger + more complex: It takes a touch of genius & a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Einstein

    ** "Less is more" = GOOD engineering!

    *** "The premise is, quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work FOR the body, rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen "I AM LEGEND"

    ...apk

  30. Hosts files override DNSBL easily... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    + hosts overcome DNS redirect fauts: How? This (see B) - Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ a faster level (ring 0) vs redundant browser addons (slowing up slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ OS, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization):

    ---

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    (Details of hosts' benefits enumerated in link)

    Summary:

    ---

    A. ) Hosts do more than AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default) + Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse", or Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...

    B. ) Hosts add reliability vs. downed or redirected DNS + secure vs. known malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... w/ less added "moving parts" complexity + room 4 breakdown,

    C. ) Hosts files yield more speed (blocks ads & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote DNS), security (vs. malicious domains serving mal-content + block spam/phish), reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable DNS, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ ISP level + weak vs FastFlux + DynDNS botnets), & anonymity (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's).

    ---

    * Addons are more complex + slowup browsers in message passing (use a few concurrently & see) - Addons slowdown SLOWER usermode browsers layering on MORE: I work w/ what you have in kernelmode, via hosts (A tightly integrated PART of the IP stack itself)

    APK

    P.S.=> * "A fool makes things bigger + more complex: It takes a touch of genius & a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Einstein

    ** "Less is more" = GOOD engineering!

    *** "The premise is, quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work FOR the body, rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen "I AM LEGEND"

    ...apk

  31. Hosts files override DNSBL easily... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    + hosts overcome DNS redirect fauts: How? This (see B) - Hosts do more w/ less (1 file) @ a faster level (ring 0) vs redundant browser addons (slowing up slower ring 3 browsers) via filtering 4 the IP stack (coded in C, loads w/ OS, & 1st net resolver queried w\ 45++ yrs.of optimization):

    ---

    APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ 32/64-bit:

    http://start64.com/index.php?o...

    (Details of hosts' benefits enumerated in link)

    Summary:

    ---

    A. ) Hosts do more than AdBlock ("souled-out" 2 Google/Crippled by default) + Ghostery (Advertiser owned) - "Fox guards henhouse", or Request Policy -> http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...

    B. ) Hosts add reliability vs. downed or redirected DNS + secure vs. known malicious domains too -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... w/ less added "moving parts" complexity + room 4 breakdown,

    C. ) Hosts files yield more speed (blocks ads & hardcodes fav sites - faster than remote DNS), security (vs. malicious domains serving mal-content + block spam/phish), reliability (vs. downed or Kaminsky redirect vulnerable DNS, 99% = unpatched vs. it & worst @ ISP level + weak vs FastFlux + DynDNS botnets), & anonymity (vs. dns request logs + DNSBL's).

    ---

    * Addons are more complex + slowup browsers in message passing (use a few concurrently & see) - Addons slowdown SLOWER usermode browsers layering on MORE: I work w/ what you have in kernelmode, via hosts (A tightly integrated PART of the IP stack itself)

    APK

    P.S.=> * "A fool makes things bigger + more complex: It takes a touch of genius & a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Einstein

    ** "Less is more" = GOOD engineering!

    *** "The premise is, quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work FOR the body, rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen "I AM LEGEND"

    ...apk