-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, Sten Drescher wrote:
Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu> said:
RG> On Thu, 2 Nov 1995 anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com wrote:
But control of Internet domain name registration means the ability to remove troublesome-or outspoken-computer systems from the network. Po- tentially, this control also confers the power to insinuate "phantom" domains into the network-for surveillance purposes, for example-or for real-time, automatic censorship.
RG> Anyone capable of sending this message should have known that this RG> was complete BS.
Is it? This is the _one_ thing in the article (is that term giving it too much legitimacy?) that I whought was barely true. Whoever controls the root level DNS servers effectively controls the Internet. I postulated a couple of months ago about how the US Govt might attempt to censor the rest of the world: "Remove lurid.porno.site.other-country from your DNS system within 72 hours or we will remove references to your DNS servers from the root level servers.". (I also speculated that if the US Govt tried doing this, that an 'underground' DNS system would form almost immediately.)
I stand corrected. SurfWatch already allows people and organizations to do this voluntarily for anything that mentions sex. I am sure that certain sites are blocked by China, Vietnam, Singapore, and Fortune 1000 Corporations, for both "moral" and political reasons. But it's not the DNS you need to control -- it's the routers. Which are still rather distributed. BBN is part of the Eastern Elite, though... - -rich -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMJkNVY3DXUbM57SdAQG0ywQAiSlU7f1AujiaWQumqQmoIK8dyDoV32+Z IlBYOxTG9uksIWPdGvQAkqcpPIx6OqOY2iA5FsX/YgjZNKjMjyrSf/cnopAM7GY3 SKDqc1thwMNAVmTFZn7emNafZ5bvwR86V340xdvH+/n396UXF9KeuqcIKk8yvKPI QCOeBTmJ1RE= =3Yeq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----