Google’s DNS servers 8.8.8.8 does not help since Saturday, to bypass the Turkish Internet censorship. For security experts available evidence suggests that the government manipulates web requests – and thus the future of the Internet in Turkey is on the line.

Erdogan’s Internet censorship will always be thorough: Only let the Turkish Prime Minister Twitter lock, then the video service YouTube. Now became public, the tricks, the Turkish internet provider, more recently proceed against their customers: they pretend to be foreign DNS servers, and so manipulate the website requests from customers who want to bypass web blocking.

This intervention in the infrastructure of the Internet is questionable. It undermines confidence in the reliability of the infrastructure and could damage the Turkish Internet industry hard for years.
At the same time it is clear in what plight put the Turkish ISP: Only reluctantly, explain the security experts Renesys in an analysis, they perform the locking statements of the government – and possibly leave loopholes for their clients open.

Google DNS Servers Turkey:Users receive a manipulated result

The analysis of the latest web attack on Google’s DNS server returned : On Friday attacked the Turkish telecommunications providers, including the industry leader Türk Telekom , the IP addresses of public DNS providers and gave themselves from then on as this DNS provider.

Who since in Turkey calls for example on alleged Google DNS server of the web sites gets a rigged result. At best, this is simply the desired page or an error message ( ” Twitter is temporarily unavailable “). The trick but could also be used to monitor the surfing behavior of the Turkish population or to guide the user to manipulated , contaminated with malware or otherwise harmful sites.

The fact that something is wrong with the supposed DNS servers , users noticed in Turkey because the DNS trick to bypass web – blocking in Turkey suddenly stopped working – although , for example, Google’s DNS servers apparently were still accessible and also useful responded to inquiries.

Google DNS Serevers Turkey:Through a millisecond the trick flew on

Who calls but from Turkey since Saturday on the DNS server from Google a YouTube address, is redirected to a operated by the Turkish government website on which the lock is justified.

As the trick worked , was revealed when experts measured the response times of the alleged Google server and found that they are much too short a millisecond : Google operates a DNS server in Turkey , so you have at such a short response time , a Turkish servers provide the DNS responses .

Renesys Commented this intervention not political, but described him as a setback for the Turkish Internet industry. “Social media sites are not essential to your business ,” explains the company . “But if Twitter and YouTube are blocked today , then what about tomorrow at Gmail and Dropbox ? ” It was not until a few years of long-term damage of Erdogan’s Internet censorship could be clear – namely, when international companies no longer invest out of distrust in the Turkish Internet infrastructure in local enterprises.

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