The Great Firewall of Belgium

Lodewijk andré de la porte l at odewijk.nl
Sat Oct 12 15:45:36 PDT 2013


2013/10/11 Laurens Vets <laurens at daemon.be>

> I've been trying to uncover this list here: http://www.randomstuff.be/**
> your-government-is-lying-to-**you-and-something-about-**censorship/<http://www.randomstuff.be/your-government-is-lying-to-you-and-something-about-censorship/>
>
> Basically, DNS requests for those websites are redirected to a government
> controlled webserver.
>
> What other techniques are there (besides checking every site on the
> internet) to try and uncover whether sites are blocked in Belgium?
>

1. Legal (most ineffective)
2. Pursuade an employee of a Belgian ISP (they must have the list)
3. Brute forcing the "government controlled" webserver and seeing what it
responds to (might respond to everything equally though)
4. Crack into Belgian ISP or government anywhere where the list is compiled
or actually applied. (Not recommended)

Up to about 8 characters a full brute-force is kinda feasible. I suspect
that some blocked websites might very well have more than 8 characters, so
it truly doesn't work. Using this <http://www.worldwidewebsize.com/> index
(highly questionable) it claims 40billion pages, which is actually kind of
doable. Problem is obtaining that list, which is not quite doable. (And
maybe your ISP claiming you're operating outside normal parameters)
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