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To: Moose Burger
Yes, Homeland Security now has all those host names pointing to its dummy IP.

It can be defeated by simply having a web site which has a downloadable "hosts" file, which when installed on your PC contains the real IP addresses of the sites that HS has decided to censor.

Since your PC looks at the hosts file before checking the domain name servers, this would override HS's censoring.

186 posted on 11/28/2010 4:44:32 PM PST by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: PapaBear3625
I checked 74.208.15.160 via telnet; if I put the number on the browser, it takes me to the ICE. But if I query directly via 'GET /' on a telnet session at the port 80, I get a weird

The document has moved <a href="http://NinjaVideo.net/index.html">here</a>.

NinjaVideo.net? Whiskey Tango...

188 posted on 11/28/2010 4:57:08 PM PST by Moose Burger
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