- May 26, 2003
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Ok, I hope someone can help me out on this.
Unfortunately, I live in Turkey (for another 5 days that is, viva Spain!) and if you haven't heard already, quite a few sites are blocked in Turkey by district courts. Don't let the term "district" fool you, when a site is blocked by a DC, it is blocked everywhere in the nation till the investigation ends. Not gonna get too political here but the current ruling party which loves to cry about democracy and freedom is just not very democratic when it comes to free speech. There are more than 1100 sites blocked right now including Youtube, DailyMotion, Blogger, RichardDawkins.net, and many more ...
Anyways, I can access all these sites via alternative DNS. It's quite simple to do, but I am clueless as to how it works, so not sure if this going to last. I changed my DNS servers to 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.1 respectively and can access any site I wish. I told my close family and friends and they can do. So what I am wondering is whether this can last and if the government here can do anything to mess up our way of getting freedom of speech? If no, I and a few other friends will start an awareness campaign, possibly find a programmer who can code a little application that will change a user's DNS settings when run.
Any ideas? Thank you Security Forum, I rarely comeby here but thanks
Unfortunately, I live in Turkey (for another 5 days that is, viva Spain!) and if you haven't heard already, quite a few sites are blocked in Turkey by district courts. Don't let the term "district" fool you, when a site is blocked by a DC, it is blocked everywhere in the nation till the investigation ends. Not gonna get too political here but the current ruling party which loves to cry about democracy and freedom is just not very democratic when it comes to free speech. There are more than 1100 sites blocked right now including Youtube, DailyMotion, Blogger, RichardDawkins.net, and many more ...
Anyways, I can access all these sites via alternative DNS. It's quite simple to do, but I am clueless as to how it works, so not sure if this going to last. I changed my DNS servers to 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.1 respectively and can access any site I wish. I told my close family and friends and they can do. So what I am wondering is whether this can last and if the government here can do anything to mess up our way of getting freedom of speech? If no, I and a few other friends will start an awareness campaign, possibly find a programmer who can code a little application that will change a user's DNS settings when run.
Any ideas? Thank you Security Forum, I rarely comeby here but thanks