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No. This is useful against assholes, not fanatics. Assholes will opportunistically shit on anything that isn't too difficult for them to worm their way into. C
by msla 5y ago
No. This is useful against assholes, not fanatics.
Assholes will opportunistically shit on anything that isn't too difficult for them to worm their way into. Crapping up DNS by making all unknown domains resolve to an ad server? Sure. Making unencrypted HTTP unusable by inserting ads and blocking keywords? On it. Blocking any port they haven't heard of? Hey, who needs ports 70 or 23 anyway, am I right? Assholes can be state actors in a state which doesn't go to extremes censoring the Internet, or they can be companies or other institutions with assholes dictating IT policy.
Fanatics will poison BGP to blackhole YouTube and, if it knocks out YouTube for a couple neighboring countries, well, those countries either agree with them or are kiddie-porn-hacker-atheist-terrorists who need to be put in their place by Morally Righteous Leaders anyway. Fanatics will kill anyone who sends or receives encrypted messages the authorities can't read, just on general principles.
HTTPS and maybe some tricks with DNS will protect you from assholes. You need legitimate tradecraft to thwart fanatics, and even then you're rather likely to be killed by a government that really doesn't care enough to even stage a convincing accident.
- Karrot_Kream 5y agoYou do it the same way it works in most of these politically-motivated-censorship countries: the sneakernet. Black market smugglers smuggle along USB sticks or preloaded laptops. But, yes, with a motivated despotic government aimed against a single individual, it's going to be mostly impossible.
- glenstein 5y agoI think you're right as a big picture point. But how exploitable is IPv6? And/or how exploitable are the critical pieces of Yggdrasil infrastructure?