When the internet will get shut down
Posted October 12th, 2008 by kwas
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An article about how to protect ourselves against the government shutting down the internet, written by a software security professional (moi).
Includes a brief analysis on safety (or lack thereof) of mirrors, load balancing, P2P, TOR, SSL and Code Words, and possible counter and counter-counterattack on all of these.
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I don't see the government being able to shut down the internet
Fortune Favors the Bold
that said, it's also true that anything on the internet can be tracked.
My guess is that
pretty soon no one will be able to afford internet service!
I have a technical question for you.
If a government agency wants to find a physical location (street address) for an internet user, how do they go about it?
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Not A Cure-all
Try Peerguardian:
Blocks government, education, spyware, etc. I think they get the list from the Blocklist Manager site, which is British, British people anyway: there program also allows you to make your own lists and use 'em with Peerguardian and some other IP blocking programs.
Peerguardian
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Blocklist Manager
http://www.bluetack.co.uk...
They trace the IP address, which identifies the carrier
and then they pressure your ISP to give you up.
Nothing on the net is anonymous. NOTHING.
Did I mention NOTHING is anonymous?
Okay, just wanted to make sure I was clear that NOTHING is anonymous.
Even so-called anonymous proxies keep records and will give you up.
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anonimity
You can use TOR (read the article) for anonimity but it's not 100%.
In the case of proxies for safety you want to jump on one proxy and on another and on another so that there are different proxies between you and the machine you access. That way the obstacle of subpoenas in different country takes all the fight out of the would-be prosecutors.
That said, it is the US govt we're talking about here. They'll get all the records they want.
If you want REAL anonymity you can go to a net cafe, making sure you don't go there more than once, and you should probably change your appearance along the way so cameras can't track you.
But the article was written for a web system not a person.
In the case of a person it's possible to get very anonymous, in the case of a web site it's much harder
What If...
You bought a laptop from someone (for cash)... hooked up your laptop with wi-fi... drove up to a big apartment block... 'borrowed' a wi-fi signal from one of the apartment dwellers (some may call it hacked)... etc, etc. I would call that pretty anonymous. Not that I've done that; just wondering :-)
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Good explanation
Nothing, as I said, can make someone completely anonymous.
The U.S. government got Russia to shut down a music site that was completely legal in Russia, you may recall. What Uncle Sam wants, Uncle Sam gets.
TOR is cool, but again, not 100%.
Web cafes are cool, too, but like you say, you'd need to change your appearance every time. Plus it's hard to hide your screen very well, there.
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Thanks for that. I have a couple more questions.
I was wondering how Google works with the Chinese government to censor material on its site.
Do they just block certain keywords/domain names?
And wouldn't it be easy for western governments to do the same?
Thank you for your time.
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Absolutely easy.
In China, for example, Google blocks results from all IPs that are based in the Republic of China (Taiwan), and other places deemed to evil for PRC citizens to know about.
They can make certain search keywords direct to official PRC sites, too. So, if you were searching for info on Tiannamen Square in PRC, then the sites that will come up are official government sites.
And yes, it could be done just as easily here.
The governments could direct local ISPs to block certain IPs, domains, or countries.
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That makes sense.
So rather than get "no results found", they just divert the traffic along approved channels. Gotcha.
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Check this out, Brit
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Some good images of the difference in searching on Google.cn and Google.com (or any other Google site). Of course, only Google.cn is available in PRC.
it's a real quick read, by the way, just a few paragraphs. Very enlightening.
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So much for Google's "Don't be evil" policy.
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Oh well.
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Yeah, that's sort of analogous to the GOP platform of old
Unheeded, just for show....
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