It's been cancelled for now
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Canceled like Google Circles? Or canceled like Microsoft Recall?
Recall, because it's definitely coming back.
Bro keep up. They doin' it again.
Despite Malaysia’s U-turn on web traffic rerouting, the ‘damage has already been done’
Good luck blocking DNS over https. Doing so would require a lot of work. It is sad to see countries going the authoritarian route. This is just the start and it will get worse.
Maybe Tor would be better
That's the next step: drop all encrypted traffic.
Some time ago the Malaysian government denied access to Steam over one religious video game. Yes the whole platform over one game. So this looks like a case of the government being dumb as usual.
Doesn't DoH and DoT completely kill this?
I have configured my home router to redirect all plaintext DNS traffic through it. I did it because Chromecasts try to sidestep DNS and go straight to Google.
While doing that was a couple of lines of nftables config, blocking DoH would require an actively maintained list. Even then, it would be trivial to host your own by renting some server space.
It has been falsely claimed that the measure undertaken by MCMC is a draconian measure
While it may be unclear exactly what kind of Internet traffic laws Draco would've written, allowing only the major landowners to run DNS servers does seem to be in keeping with the spirit of "aiding and legitimizing the political power of the aristocracy and allowing them to consolidate their control of the land and poor" as his laws are said to have done.
say what you will, but online gambling being the most blocked category is heartening to hear.
Encrypted DNS traffic => oh noed, what now?
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
pretty sure dns will fail.
Screenshotting this for the long troll
https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/
I use pihole+cloudflared to translate all DNS requests on my LAN to DoH requests. Regular DNS isn't permitted to leave my network. (port 53 outbound is blocked)
Can't redirect/modify/monitor DoH requests like you can plain DNS.
It has been falsely claimed that the measure undertaken by MCMC is a draconian measure. We reiterate that Malaysia’s implementation is for the protection of vulnerable groups from harmful online content.
You don't need to ban privacy reapecting DNS services to ban specific websites. It's made just for spying.
DoH, DoT, DoQ, DNSCrypt, or just use a VPN
I use VPN, can't be bothered with DNS anymore because i know they will pull this move.
Also it's really just a mask for easier censorship, as Malaysia had tried it before, censoring site like news site that report on government scandals, news site that focus on LGBT reporting, Fanfic, Medium, and even Steam.
Seems like using a VPN is basically inevitable now