Fighting Turkey's Twitter Ban With DNS Graffiti

When Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he wold eradicate Twitter, he wasn't joking.

The Prime Minister's office issued a statement on Thursday stating that Turkish officials had "no option" other than to ban the service, which had been used to release damaging information about him. But the edict was met with controversy and retaliation, both from Turkish citizens and Turkey's elite, including its president. The Turkish local elections are only ten days away.

On a typical day, Turkey ranks No. 8 in active users worldwide, and the country's 10 million Twitter users would not be silenced. Since the country's Twitter ban seems to be enabled by a simple DNS block, people are finding ways to circumnavigate the ban, from sending tweets via SMS to changing their DNS to using a VPN or Tor Read more...