The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has instructed Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to redirect Domain Name Service (DNS) traffic that uses third-party DNS servers back to their own DNS servers
MCMC has blocked a total of 24,277 websites between between 2018 to Aug 1, classified into various categories, which are online gambling (39 per cent), pornography/obscene content (31 per cent), copyright infringement (14 per cent), other harmful sites (12 per cent), prostitution (two per cent) and unlawful investments/scams (two per cent).
“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.
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.
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’s been cancelled for now
Canceled like Google Circles? Or canceled like Microsoft Recall?
Recall, because it’s definitely coming back.
Bro keep up. They doin’ it again.
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.
say what you will, but online gambling being the most blocked category is heartening to hear.
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.
DoH, DoT, DoQ, DNSCrypt, or just use a VPN
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.
Encrypted DNS traffic => oh noed, what now?
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
How is this different from US ISP bootstrapping peasant grade internet?
The sun will run this heainen for maysia but nobody run these headlines for the US.
I wonder why
Edit: if you are going to downvote at least explain if you got a counter point, otherwise it seems y’all just buttburt haha
Edit: if you are going to downvote at least explain if you got a counter point, otherwise it seems y’all just butthurt haha
Okay.
How is this different from US ISP bootstrapping peasant grade internet?
- Whatabout-ism is annoying AF.
- How is nationwide re-configuring of DNS to enable censorship different than “bootstrapping peasant grade internet” is a dumb question on it’s face.
- I’m sitting in the middle of Wyoming sending this comment via a 2Gb/s fiber optic connection. This is not “peasant grade”.
So basically you are getting downvoted because your comment is irrelevant 'Murica bashing.
Now you know.
These guys ever heard of Mozilla and good old ECH along with DoH? Just lol at these noobs.
And if the Malaysian government wants to try fucking with American tech they’ll get what’s coming for them
American tech?
This means less users for Google, Cloudflare etc
