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themalaysianinsider.com ran a flip-flop story on Malaysian Internet censorship. “N” dude has firmly denied a plan to police the Internet citing technical obstacles and strong public displeasure over it. But “R” chap confirmed a possible “green dam” review and the government only intended to block access to pornographic sites. An obvious lack of communication within the ministers and government departments? Now let me show you what the “TM” dudes are doing.

dig @202.188.0.133 gutteruncensored.com ANY

; <<>> DiG 9.4.3-P2 <<>> @202.188.0.133 gutteruncensored.com ANY
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15423
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;gutteruncensored.com. IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
gutteruncensored.com. 3600 IN SOA ns1.blocked. blocked.tm.net.my. 1 900 600 86400 3600
gutteruncensored.com. 3600 IN NS ns1.blocked.
gutteruncensored.com. 3600 IN A 127.0.0.1

;; Query time: 27 msec
;; SERVER: 202.188.0.133#53(202.188.0.133)
;; WHEN: Sun Aug 9 15:15:01 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 132

Brilliant… filter via fake DNS records. Some of the gutteruncensor.com readers from Malaysia might have noticed this a week ago. Probably, the “TM” dudes decided, “Since MCMC is sleeping, screw both “N” and “R” dudes. Let them say what they wanted. I’m going ahead with my filtering Kung fu.”

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