Fluffeh writes:
"Following up on the earlier story where Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan put a nation-wide ban on Twitter after they didn't remove content that made him look less than stellar, Turkish citizens reacted in much the same that file-sharers around the world have done when sites such as The Pirate Bay were blocked by their ISPs. They took to the open web to spread the word on how to circumvent web censorship but in a fresh twist, they also took to the streets posting information, graffiti with DNS records to the point where according to analysis site Zete.com, tweets in Turkey before the ban numbered 10 million a day they now sit at 24 million.
The Turkish Government responded in turn by (Google Translation) blocking Google's DNS."
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maratumba writes:
"Within the same day as the PM announced his intention to do so (previous story here), Twitter has been blocked in Turkey. Reports say that it is currently possible to circumvent the ban by using Google DNS. But the word is, they will not only prevent this method, but also block Facebook and Youtube."
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @01:47PM
Hey guys I just finished assembling my Arduino-driven, vibrating buttplug. Is this awesome?!!
(Score: 3, Funny) by LaminatorX on Saturday March 22 2014, @02:02PM
We await your submission.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @05:10PM
Can you post content like that, though? You don't have a Mac section yet! Maybe you need to create one just for AC's efforts.
(Score: 1) by captain normal on Saturday March 22 2014, @11:40PM
Please don't feed the trolls.
The Musk/Trump interview appears to have been hacked, but not a DDOS hack...more like A Distributed Denial of Reality.
(Score: 1) by Subsentient on Saturday March 22 2014, @02:26PM
Can you make a RasPi powered colonoscopy bag?
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @02:46PM
Sure. I already have a RaspPi-powered dildo chair.
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 22 2014, @02:14PM
I hate sounding like apk, but this would be a case for which host files would be the perfect tool. Unless the government hacks into every single computer, they simply cannot block that.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by gishzida on Saturday March 22 2014, @02:53PM
Um... A firewall filter at the Turkish backbone gateway could kill any traffic to and from that block of addresses... looks like a vpn would be better...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @03:29PM
Turkish immigrants, like Mexican immigrants, are scum.
They are an urban blight -- when a Turkish or Mexican family moves into your neighborhood, you can count on the residence falling into disrepair as well as trash and graffiti strewn throughout the neighborhood. There will be robberies. There will be noise, ethnic music being blasted loudly every night until 4a.m. because all 14 residents of that two-bedroom house will be collecting welfare and drunk with Ouzo or Tequila, and being employed is most certainly out of the question for them.
Much of that noise will be the screaming and crying of infants, for the Turks and Mexicans are confirmed out-of-control breeders. There is no incentive for them to not behave like out-of-control animals, for the faggot liberals of San Francisco who live in gated communities with magical minorities and White guilt continuously vote for their handouts. You know how expensive a hospital bill is? Now imagine your tax dollars paying for all those illegitimate births and stab/bullet wounds from gang fights.
Do not let the Brown menace into your neighborhood. Your life may depend on it.
Never let a Turk or Mexican move into your neighborhood unless you want your property values to sink like a stone.
(Score: 1) by francois.barbier on Saturday March 22 2014, @03:52PM
If they did this, changing your DNS wouldn't help.
The only working alternative would be VPN.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @03:58PM
One word: Tor.
(Score: 1) by maratumba on Saturday March 22 2014, @05:41PM
Tor is great, the only thing is that it is too slow for videos. You may say 'who cares about stupid kitty videos' but it is a big part in any resistance movement. One of the things that made people go out on the street was the footage of police brutality.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Saturday March 22 2014, @09:45PM
It doesn't have to be fast enough for live video if you download and then view.
(Score: 1) by maratumba on Saturday March 22 2014, @06:42PM
That sounds like a good idea. Do you know any such files with all the google, twitter, facebook and youtube servers in it?
(Score: 2) by randmcnatt on Saturday March 22 2014, @04:01PM
The Wright brothers were not the first to fly: they were the first to land.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 22 2014, @04:28PM
If the proxies are inside Turkey, they have access to the very same information as the original computers, and therefore are not useful for circumvention. Only proxies outside the country would help.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday March 22 2014, @08:11PM
When Egypt did this back in 2011 I believe, didn't a local 'darknet' appear within a few days that conneted different computers and phone together and then ultimately connected to a tower or satlink out of Egypts control?
The end result of course making a large number of tech savvy Egyptians. The Chinese have become pretty good getting around 'the great firewall.' Repression breeds rebellion.
Unfortunately here, repression is more like a frog being slowly boiled to death, with a comfortable population too distracted by gadgets to notice. And when it finally realizes what's going on, western civilization is going to look a lot like Stalins Russia. Maybe with a bit of luck both the East and West will stabilize somewhere in the middle before it all burns. Not ideal, but better than a total downfall.
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday March 22 2014, @08:18PM
Yeaah, I know my sentences are a bit truncated and not fleshed out...Nursing a sholder surgery. One finger typing....'Where's my Hydrocodone?" :P
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday March 22 2014, @08:21PM
And too buzzed to use spellchecker...
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 4, Funny) by mvar on Saturday March 22 2014, @04:02PM
We have to give credit to their goverment and their emphasis on computer & related technologies education. By the end of this stupidity, the turkish population will be experts on DNS issues and IP connectivity troubleshooting. Following India's major advances in IT in recent years, i think the next big wave of IT professionals will originate from Turkey
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @04:06PM
Well, that and gay sex.
Mostly gay sex...
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @05:33PM
If my calculations are correct, they've blocked
*facebook
*twitter
*google
which is much better than what my country is doing!
I never expected such enlightened position from the sultans of swing!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 23 2014, @01:32AM
don't forget youtube..
If you block google authentication youtube throws out an error 500 with a bunch of jibberish about a team of monkeys and an encrypted error report.
Noticed this little glitch last weekend when the google DNS entries went screwy.
(Score: 1) by gitano on Sunday March 23 2014, @07:19PM
They blocked google dns very fast. The tip was handed in curious ways :) http://9to5google.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/8888 .jpg [wordpress.com]
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Monday March 24 2014, @10:37AM
I hope that all governments around the world are watching this. There is no way to effectively block parts of the internet, so way bother. People will always find a way.
"Oh think of the children". Bollocks to the children, if the parents did a proper job of parenting, then the children will not be a problem. If kids want to look at porn, they will. There are other sources than the internet for such things; shopping catalogues of underwear, etc.
People need to wake up and stop trying to protect children with cotton-wool/bubble-wrap, it will only harm them in the end.