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Re:Using 4LW to reach sites with domains seized by the DHS by wccrawford on Saturday November 27, 2010 @05:12PM (#1946019)
It'd be a lot easier to just write down the IP. Nobody is going to actually remember those words, and if they're on a shared IP it's not going to get to them anyhow.

And if they change IPs (because their host shut them down because the government forced it) then the 4 words are worthless.

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Re:Using 4LW to reach sites with domains seized by the DHS by wdaher on Saturday November 27, 2010 @06:53PM (#1946204)
Agreed. In fact, DNS was developed basically to address many of the problems with this (admittedly cute) idea :)

Its ancestor was basically a system where'd you download a new hosts file every day -- which was doable when the Internet was small, but didn't scale well.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)#History

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