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by delimitted 5278 days ago
True, but not everyone who will be affected by SOPA is a hacker. After (and if) SOPA is passed, releasing this sort of program will be illegal. The point was to illustrate to congress that SOPA is ineffective, and hopefully turn the conversation to something more workable.
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gvb 5278 days ago
Ahh, but my main point is that the capability is baked into every firewall/router and it does not take a hacker to configure it to bypass SOPA. It would be easy to make instructions that "anybody's mother" could follow to configure to point to a non-SOPAed DNS server.

If SOPA is passed, it would make firewall/routers illegal unless the manufacturers removed the ability to set the DNS server, which is clearly nonsense and unenforceable.

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delimitted 5278 days ago
You may be surprised about how challenging it may be for "anybody's mother". Anyway, DeSopa was a quick way to prove a point. I expect that if SOPA passes offshore DNS services will advertise their IPs for manual setup (resolv.conf, TCP/IP windows settings etc), and local applications will be developed that circumvent SOPA in this and other ways.
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seanp2k2 5278 days ago
Yup, and this is exactly why MAFIAAFire got a takedown notice, even though you could "explain to your mom" how to implement a HOSTS file.
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