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Question - what makes sci-hub.now.sh, which is essentially acting as a kind of manual DNS, more resilient to censorship than the actual DNS system that necessit
by dTal 7y ago
Question - what makes sci-hub.now.sh, which is essentially acting as a kind of manual DNS, more resilient to censorship than the actual DNS system that necessitates all these ever-changing links? And can we automate it?
- kaffee 7y agoSo you can't censor sci-hub.now.sh (at least in the US, where linking is typically protected speech). So that's one thing. Also, the actual DNS system doesn't have a way of redirecting you to another site when the record has been censored, so it's not very resilient in the first place. Relevant similar site: https://dark.fail https://dark.fail
- Vinnl 7y agoI'd guess it's the same as what makes Wikipedia resilient: they're just links. As long as Wikipedia and Wikidata can link to the current location of Sci-Hub, why can't other sites?
- ocschwar 7y agoThe actual DNS system is vulnerable to domain registrar takedown requests.
- ur-whale 7y agonamecoin tried to work around DNS centralized failure modes such as this. sad it hasn't taken off.