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CloudFlare Puts Pirate Sites on New IP Addresses, Avoids Cogent Blockade (torrentfreak.com)
Earlier this month, several users worldwide reported that they were unable to access pirate websites including the Pirate Bay. It was because the internet backbone network of Cogent Communications had blackholed the CloudFlare IP-address of pirate websites. Less than a week later, CloudFlare is fighting back. From a report on TorrentFreak: The Pirate Bay and dozens of other pirate sites that were blocked by Cogent's Internet backbone are now accessible again. CloudFlare appears to have moved the sites in question to a new pair of IP-addresses, effectively bypassing Cogent's blackhole. [...] As of yesterday, the sites in question have been assigned the IP-addresses 104.31.16.3 and 104.31.17.3, still grouped together. Most, if not all of the sites, are blocked by court order in the UK so this is presumably done to prevent ISP overblocking of 'regular' CloudFlare subscribers.
But all Cogent has to do is resolve the names and update their block to reflect it, this could be automated
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They need to identify UK government websites that are using cloudflare, and put them on the blackholed IP's.
Level3 should have nuked it when they were caught hot-potato routing in violation of peering agreements
Surely there are some MPAA/RIAA members who use Cloudfare.
Cloudfare should switch their sites to the previously blocked IP addresses.
We already have nations cutting off Internet during times of unrest, and applying massive filtering and spying efforts against communications to and from their populations regardless.
If you're going to apply national laws to an international system, that system is going to need to be chopped up into pieces that fit the political borders.
That really sucks if your nation is surrounded by nations who disagree on what should be passed through their borders, so ultimately there needs to be some kind of Internet Treaty, where it is agreed that traffic is only to be interfered with if one of the end points is domestic, or by agreement with one of the governments with authority over an end point.
Let governments be responsible for the border filters (and, presumably, spying), and then private companies like Cogent will have no interest in taking actions like IP block blacklisting.
You can limit the bandwidth severely, and if you control the chokepoints for the trunks you can choose to only let through what you can scan and approve.
Yes, people can pass messages through steganography, or sneakernet, or radio links... but that's trivial to make illegal and while you can't easily enforce such laws they can be enforced well enough to reduce state-prohibited communications significantly.
So yes, the Internet can route around it... but when 'around it' means around the 'around the area containing the destination' that's not really a solution.
Fuck those greedy nI-ggers
... who didn't see this coming?
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Not true.
It's a game of diminishing returns but there's never an absolute winner.
You can make it nearly impossible to circumvent, and then someone can build a complex circumvention...and so on. Remember when 'hacking' was dumping the plaintext password database after booting off a floppy?
You can make censorship difficult enough to circumvent that people will find something else to do...but the cost (implementation and maint) in that is very high.
You can get rich if you own a politician, but you have to be rich to buy one in the first place.
Your memory is embarrassingly short, since it's not been that long since we've actually seen governments kill their Internet.
You can indulge in your 'information wants to be free' fantasies all you want, but the only thing stopping governments from effectively controlling their Internet is the cost of the required infrastructure and the negative effect it would bring to their economy.
Reducing the 'Information Superhighway' to a pedestrian path with a guard at the border crossing isn't impossible.
Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay has .onion address on TOR, and that one was still running during the whole situation.
(It can't technically be blocked that easily.)
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Well, at least you're smart enough to post your stupidity as AC so it doesn't stick to you.
Your software is just fine - well written, functional. Your claims that it's practically the cure for all the internet's woes are over-the-top and make you seem rather like the current POTUS. Your bellicose and acerbic posts, combined with your repeatedly posting straight binspam have given you a reputation here which even a calm, reasonable analysis cannot overcome. Your own reaction to this thread are a prime example.
I've long known that host files can solve certain problems - and nowadays, those problems are becoming more and more common. Your Host File Engine does make the task of managing a local host file on one Windows desktop easier - but that's all it does and your attitude and your bellicose, fanatical posts make it impossible to determine or even say that here. You've successfully increased the signal/noise ratio beyond the tolerance of nearly everyone here.
I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine. Have fun languishing in your self-imposed obscurity. Nearly all Slashdot users know who you are and won't even give a second thought to anything you write, suggest or say. I have, and now I'm paying the price for it. Downmod away, mods! I've said what is required and been heard by the intended recipient of my message.