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Well! Not really a surprise, is it? We knew that DNS censorship was coming sooner or later. The real surprise is that it lasted so long. X509 (TLS) PKI is also
by goku12 9mo ago
Well! Not really a surprise, is it? We knew that DNS censorship was coming sooner or later. The real surprise is that it lasted so long. X509 (TLS) PKI is also probably being abused right now. We know how differently the administration sees services like these that are actually beneficial to humanity. Choosing to rely on services like DNS and PKI exclusively for the function they provide is a very bad idea going forward for us normies.
We should have considered these centralized and corporate driven core infrastructure components as interim measures while more independent alternatives were being developed. We have a few different alternatives right now. Can't we just choose one and switch over? (something not based on blockchains.) Something like GNU Name System, may be?
PS: They will probably block the IP if Server hold/DNS block is not useful anymore. That's a different problem though.
- flipped 9mo agoTor and monero will save the world.
- OsrsNeedsf2P 9mo agoTor yes. I even recall seeing a rare use of blockchain for domain names (Namecoin) over a decade ago. But I don't see how Monero helps?
- flipped 9mo agoFinancial freedom and private transactions. It's also mined on consumer hardware making it far more decentralized than bitcoin.
- tavavex 9mo agoI wonder if in the interim period between DNS blocks and full IP bans, some websites will start distributing their IP addresses directly as the "official" way to connect to them.
- rurban 9mo agoJust add the censored IP's to your /etc/hosts file, and don't care.
- goku12 9mo agoThe question is, how will you obtain that IP address from them? DNS was the answer to that question. So when you ask that question again, you're effectively asking for a DNS alternative.
- tavavex 9mo agoI mean, all of this is a hypothetical, but wouldn't you find the IP in the same way how you'd find the domain now? If there's means among communities to disseminate new TLDs as these websites are forced to move back and forth, then there's nothing stopping them from sharing IPs instead.