Concerned-ish

Recently, during college hours after completing my work in around about five minutes (total brag) I took to browsing Reddit. Recently, I’ve been seeing stuff about the E-PARASITE Act. Now, being British I’m not entirely certain what this is, but my understanding is the design:

• Requires search engines and ISPs to blacklist certain websites
• Pisses people off

As an objective Brit who’s been dealing with the Digital Economy Act for a year and a half (and completely circumvented it using some of the most obvious things whilst doing exactly what it was designed to prevent), I see some simple solutions.

Darknets

The definition of a Darknet is one that is unreachable via normal methods. A so called “Dark Internet” consists of a network of sites that no search engine links to, and is in effect, completely isolated from the rest of the web while sharing space on it. Projects such as Freenet are attempts to create a miniature, fully anonymous Internet, complete with encryption – ergo, even if your connection was monitored by a third party, they wouldn’t recognize your porn episodes of Teletubbies being streamed. Additionally Freenet is decentralised – content is stored on multiple client PCs and accessed via P2P techniques. Nifty.

Otherwise, a darknet can simply be created with…

Custom DNS

When you type a URL, your browser requests information from a DNS server, usually your ISP’s own. This information is the IP address of the server to get info from, and the Act may force websites they don’t like to redirect to 0.0.0.0 – an invalid IP. Solution? Use a DNS that doesn’t. A simple router settings change is sufficient. Hell all I need is two servers and I could run my own DNS server – it’s that simple. If someone out there has two servers and 2 IP addresses, do everyone a favour and set one up if it passes. I’d do it myself if I had the cash.

Just some random crap that spews from my mind while having flu and tired.