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It is amazing the DNS system lasted this long. Turkey seems ready to push over this house of cards. Hopefully a namecoin type system will rise from the ashes. T
by zmanian 13y ago
It is amazing the DNS system lasted this long. Turkey seems ready to push over this house of cards. Hopefully a namecoin type system will rise from the ashes. Trust without cryptography is dead.
- icebraining 13y agoFor this kind of censorship, namecoin wouldn't have helped. Turkey could've just watched the namecoin blockchain and update their IP blacklist directly from it.
- zmanian 13y agoIP blacklisting is not as appealing to governments as DNS blocking because of virtual hosts. The collateral damage from breaking DNS is bad enough. IP blocking runs the risk of breaking essential economic services. It is possible for governments to invest in session interruption like what China does is possible. Layering trustworthy DNS, ubiquitous SSL and Tor
- mrtksn 13y agoA Turkish scholar have nice analysis on this. She thinks that the Turkish government does not seek to completely ban the spread of information and knows that it's not possible. Instead the government tries to demonize the social media to keep it's supporters away from it. here is the full article: https://medium.com/p/cb596ce5f27 https://medium.com/p/cb596ce5f27