did you know dear readers that telecom italia is probably the most advanced technology company in Italy? oh yes. they are the first to start filtering internet as recently proposed by incompetent italian government.
If you are a telecom italia (specifically interbusiness) client and you happen to use their DNS servers (like this one: 151.99.125.1) then don’t be surprized to get an ugly webpage ( attached ) when you browse sites that share images or tell post naughty jokes. Just like it happend with imagesnack. One of the most popular websites for posting images and embedding them on other sites. Someone from Polizia Postale found a picture that according to their rules falls into pedophilia category. One picture. Billions of websites lost content.
What can you do to prevent this scam? Well, I don’t believe you can do something to Telecom Italia, either I don’t think you can do something to Italian Government. So just help yourself, browse to http://www.opendns.com/ andfollow the instructions on how to start using it. I am terribly sorry for the poor guys who are in corporate networks that use telecom italia DNS and don’tallow direct requests from workstations.
If you still ask how they do this, then in two words, when you type www.google.com in your browser, your system has to translate it into numeric IP address. This is done for you by your DNS server. Telecom italia clients use telecom italia DNS server. This server when you type in a name of blocked website translates it into incorrect IP address that shows you the ugly page. If you use an external DNS server (like OpenDNS) or you have a local one (your own) than you are totally ok and Your Internet cannot be censored by this highly advanced technological company.
