Kudos to adguard dns for [planing to] filing a counter-claim against potential abuse of power.
Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
That would work but it is a very risky technique. For the mere mortal in your example this means possible jail time just to get some site closed down. For law enforcement personnel, at the very least would mean an end of a career if caught (also possible jail time)
The current federal government in the USA actively encourages federal agents to use illegal and unethical methods, and promised them protection and immunity.
The current federal government of France? Of the EU? The article is not about the USA.
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#113Different question, but what are realistic use cases of archive.today that could be interesting for average person?
News agencies edit the history all the time.
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#114A few weeks ago I noticed DNS4EU couldn’t resolve archive.is and assumed it was just a configuration mistake. I emailed them about it, and after a couple of days or weeks (not really sure) the domain started resolving again. Given AdGuard’s recent report about suspicious pressure on DNS providers to block Archive.today, I’m starting to wonder if DNS4EU’s temporary block was actually related to the same campaign
Archive.is have previously blocked cloudflare DNS because it was anonymizing requests. It could be either.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
>The archive.is owner has explained that he returns bad results to us because we don’t pass along the EDNS subnet information. This information leaks information about a requester’s IP and, in turn, sacrifices the privacy of users.
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#115The amount of forces seemingly actively trying to kill the internet of old is disconcerting. Chat control, DNS as arbiter of whats allowed, walled gardens etc.
The internet will be destroyed as countries the world over seek to impose all of their silly and incompatible laws on it. The international network will fracture into multiple national networks with heavy filtering at the borders. I've been making this prediction for years now. Words can hardly capture the sadness I feel when I see evidence of its slow realization. I'm happy to have known the true internet. Truly one…
Yes, I believe this too. The internet is heading the way of balkanization - politically divided subnetworks. Archival services are more important than ever, as well as software such as Tor, WireGuard, and v2ray.
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#116If the US and UK block websites like archive.today, scihub, and libgen/anna's archive, then how do we think we win the information war against countries that don't give a bleep about copyright?
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they’re well crafted laws because I think that’s their intended purpose.
“The purpose of a system is what it does.”
POSIWID - not really:
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/come-on-obviously-the-purpo...
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've seen some theories or maybe more like guesses as to how the paywall bypass works - I don't think anyone (or at least no one posting places like here) seems to know. One I saw suggested they've a set of subscriptions to the paywalled sites and some minimal custom work to hide the signed in account used - which seems plausible. That makes the defense most likely used to catch the account used and ban them - which…
They probably just set user agent (and reverse DNS name) to Google or some other company that can bypass the firewall.
This seems the most likely way it works. Which makes me unsympathetic to publishers who complain about it. Digital distribution will always have this issue. Substack goes from strength to strength because they don't give an inch on the paywall.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, as the post indicates, it likely isn't from a government body.
I thought they were suggesting it was a government body (an FBI operation)
I think they don't have sufficient evidence on that, and they're just wondering if the timing is coincidence or not. (And there are many ways the two could be connected -- it wouldn't have to be a direct FBI op.)
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