Back in October, Walled Culture wrote about the grandly-named “Piracy Shield”. This is Italy’s new Internet blocking system, which assumes people are guilty until innocent, and gives the copyright industry a disproportionate power to control what is available online, no court orders required. Piracy Shield went live in December, and has just issued its first …

  • retro@infosec.pubEnglish
    141·
    9 months ago

    I’m sure your aware but for people who aren’t… Only changing your DNS doesn’t hide your traffic, only your DNS query. They can’t see you are resolving 1337x.to but they CAN see you access 104.31.16.118. This is why a VPN is important as it stops your ISP from seeing all of your traffic.

    • ex_06@slrpnk.netEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      Yep, good to note for other people. I’m aware but here torrenting is kinda allowed. If you do it for yourself and without any profit motive you can just keep going without any kind of issue

      The dns change is just to not have to use proxies to access stuff like libgen and piratebay in my case :)

    • Saik0AEnglish
      61·
      9 months ago

      DNS as a protocol is in general clear text. Your provider can see what you query regardless.

        • Saik0AEnglish
          33·
          9 months ago

          Root servers don’t support that. Nothing would stop governments from telling all ISPs in the country to block all DNS servers that don’t comply.

          Edit: Missed a word.