The Pirate Bay Dancing for Firefox Bypasses National IP & DNS Blocks
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Half the geeks in Denmark have done so, since they instituted our national Child Porn filter* here a couple of years ago.
*Despite the name the filter does not block Child Porn, at least people get caught with it all the time. It does however block the Pirate Bay as well as Dutch company leasing fork lifts, to be fair they are no doubt under the age of 18 and they are some very, very sexy fork lifts.
You're using GMail/G+, I assume. Now a machine that might very well be easily identified (probably with some heuristics, the harder the more people share your address) as belonging to a specific google user id. And you just started telling Google _every single domain you visit_.
Maybe they throw it away. Maybe you've got nothing to hide (..). I wouldn't recommend that as a decent option to any geek or non-geek though.
Google's DNS service at least makes pretty strict privacy promises that are easier to believe and easier to understand than all the incredibly complicated advertising related don't track stuff. And their DNS servers are really fast.
Oh? What's the state of the art about this now? What are some good projects?
Don't expect a quick solution - until/unless censorship in more places get significantly worse, this is still largely fringe stuff that doesn't see a huge amount of real work invested in it. And don't necessarily expect a single solution. It'll be years before we get to a stage where there's anything resembling a "standard" system for this.
What I think you have here is a group of kids with a very very basic entry level knowledge of networking let along WAN routing and network topologies. Maybe some of them have loaded ddwrt or tomato onto a wrt54g and thought they were a ccie, but it looks like a lot of 'hey woman this is a good idea to stick it to comcast and verizon!' and not a whole lot of actual engineering or planning.
That is why I think it is more interesting as a place that aggregates links about other projects than as a project in itself. It's a decent place for getting an idea what is going on elsewhere (in the open at least). Not so much if you're looking for a community that's actually implementing something.