ok so in a lot of countries block objecting sites...
in the UK (which is still in the EU) they block child pornography sites via DNS and url this even blocked part of wikipedia.org for a while until people noticed... (there is no public list)
so what really interest's me is how are they blocking those sites ? who sold this to them or did they develop it themselves and are they issuing SSL certificates for sites to inspect the payload of SSL traffic ?
actually how are they blocking ? (Score:2)
ok so in a lot of countries block objecting sites...
in the UK (which is still in the EU) they block child pornography sites via DNS and url this even blocked part of wikipedia.org for a while until people noticed...
(there is no public list)
so what really interest's me is how are they blocking those sites ?
who sold this to them or did they develop it themselves and are they issuing SSL certificates for sites to inspect the payload of SSL traffic ?
anyone actually have the TECHNICAL DETAILS ?
regards
John Jones
Re:actually how are they blocking ? (Score:5, Informative)
If it's the same implementation as Turkey's (now defuct) ban YouTube, it was done on a DNS level.
Simply changing your DNS servers to anything else (Google / OpenDNS, etc) - not only do you bypass the block, but you also have reliable DNS.