So with Obeezy announcing with an extremely short term notice that the IANA is transferring ICANN responsibilities and powers to to globalist entities associated with the World Economics Forum, I am slightly concerned about the future integrity of the internet.
My main question would be what are the alternative DNS roots that I should have prepared, and has anyone made a tool for easily switching between them? (and if not, why in the fuck not?)
Buuuump
seriously though I think if Sup Forums put their heads together on this then we could build some type of alternative to the internet like a mesh net. There are so many cell phones around I bet there's a way to do it.
But if you haven't noticed the internet is like 75% shills now. They know we use adblockers so they just post ads disguised as comments. Microsoft does it all the time here.
Hard to get anything done with all the shills distracting us.
Shills or no, there are still a considerable number of brilliant people here. There's gotta a guide, pdf, etc, for aggregating a collection of alternative DNS connections.
I have a couple locked down, but assuming the status quo deteriorates into something unusable, it would not be unlikely that alternative routes to the internet could be targeted, and depending on where they are based, and where the operators live, some of those could also go down.
It would be nice to at least have the knowledge, if not a tool for ease of connectivity between multiple different NICs, in case the NetMundial initiative isn't blocked (it currently looks unlikely).
Alternatives will be needed, and they will need to be easily disseminated.
If nothing else, it would be nice to get a somewhat comprehensive list of networking means available, and some more programming savvy of my friends could probably get paid a minimal amount to tie them into a user agent switcher.
The preservation of anonymity is imperative to maintain the level of freedom of speech that we have grown accustomed. Now that that box has been opened, taking the internet as we know it away from us should certainly be considered an abuse of human rights.
P2P DNS can't work, read this
nohats.ca
There is somewhat of a solution, storing DNS as a blockchain
bit.namecoin.info
That argument seems flawed. I want to take a personal car to the liquor store because the city bus has decided that it's in my best interest no to stop there anymore. That article seems to be saying that I couldn't get there because my car and other private non governmental vehicles don't by default all agree on where the liquor store is.
Wouldn't the address be decided by the protocol, the physical mapping of the network, and the IP? Of course there would be ways to cheat this and drive off-road, but there are already.
I pay my bill monthly for access to the roads, not as bus fare, and I refuse to accept that the roads don't work without a city bus.
I'm probably dumbing this down for myself to a point that it hurts my reasoning, but I've never been much of a networking guy, I only understand the basic principles when it comes to internet connectivity.
If my understanding of this is way off point, please help me out
that's a bad analogy.
IP addresses can change over time, and are difficult to remember. DNS was created to solve these problems by creating simple keywords which are mapped to the IP address of a particular server.
DNS however, requires that there be one centralized recording authority, which everyone trusts (believes the address entries are true and correct)
(by nature of the top-level-domain system they must also be hierarchical, but we can ignore that for now)
the reasoning for this is, if you have competing authorities, (or a P2P system) then different people could have conflicting records for which IP maps to a particular site.
This could be innocuous, simply the result of latency in the network causing updates not to reach all peers in a timely manner, or it could be malicious, with a hacker or LEO trying to redirect people to a site they own.
(possible innaccuracies ahead cause i'm not all that sure about exactly how blockchains work)
namecoin addresses these problems but creates some of its own
namecoin is based on bitcoin, and essentially, each individual namecoin has a serial number, and is associated with a particular hostname. The namecoin is used to authenticate the you as the owner of that hostname. it allows you to transfer ownership and to update the IP mapping which points to your hostname.
There's a number of issues with this I can think of:
First, all the DNS info is stored in the blockchain. this is both a positive and a negative. the blockchain is highly secure and difficult to tamper with, however this also requires you to run multiple programs on your computer, and to sync with the whole blockchain, something which takes a very long time (and this time will only continue to increase as the blockchain grows larger)
Second, there is no recourse if you lose your namecoin. Maintaining control of it is the sole responsibility of you, the owner. if you lose it or someone steals it, you're SOL.
Like.. there are physical addresses for all websites and all internet connected things... If I had to search for and/or memorize a bunch of IPV6 addresses, so be it, but if I'm supposed to believe that I can't find where I'm going if it's not through the pre-approved DNS, that just sounds ridiculous to me.
From what I've seen, there are more than a few unofficial namespace servers that work just fine, so long as you trust whoever runs those more than the soon-to-be EU owners of ICANN, and there are certainly examples (granted, mostly small scale from what I've seen) of fully decentralized 'RNS' which I'm guessing is just a semi-routinely updated name server locally stored in the software used to access whatever protocol is being used, instead of asking a remote server for directions every time.
Again, I could be insanely wrong on all this, but if I'm wrong, help me learn.
no you're right, that's just insanely inconvenient.
you have to be setup to access the unofficial nameservers, you have to trust whoever runs that server, or you have to memorize IPs and hope they don't change and have ways outside the DNS system of sharing IPs with people.
for the vast majority of internet users, no DNS = no site