Russia attempts to block Tor

[Ahriman]

OONI reports of Tor blocking in certain ISPs since 2021-12-01

Via @gus, OONI reports in a limited number of ASes in Russia show Tor blocking (blocking of all directory authorities and default obfs4 bridges) since 2021-12-01. This is unusual—the measurements from the days before do not show signs of Tor blocking...

ntc.party

Whatcha doin', Putin?

 

[byuu]

Based.
Now you can't hide your degeneracy through TOR.
I hope they ban Telegram and the Fediverse next.

 

[sasazuka]

@byuu I was going to say that I thought Telegram was already banned in Russia but astonishingly that ruling got overturned because it was still in common use in Russia despite the official ban.

 

[byuu]

@byuu I was going to say that I thought Telegram was already banned in Russia but astonishingly that ruling got overturned because it was still in common use in Russia despite the official ban.

I didn't even know that. What an icon of free speech fighting big tech censorship.

 

[Agran]

Based.
Now you can't hide your degeneracy through TOR.
I hope they ban Telegram and the Fediverse next.

Glow

 

[Jolyne THICCujoh]

Based.
Now you can't hide your degeneracy through TOR.
I hope they ban Telegram and the Fediverse next.

This post glows brighter than the sun.

 

[Ero]

It's pointless, you can just use a private bridge or even use a VPN inbetween TOR and your ISP. It's just another episode of authoritarian shitholes half-assing censorship.

 

[Stoneheart]

A Bear ate it, now stop asking questions....

 

[mikaylatoads]

no more deepweb kompot rip

 

[Cavalier Cipolla]

@byuu I was going to say that I thought Telegram was already banned in Russia but astonishingly that ruling got overturned because it was still in common use in Russia despite the official ban.

Well, I mean, even private farms in the USSR were officially banned, yet they were still tolerated by the regime in practice.

 

[Besachf Jhakut]

Well, I mean, even private farms in the USSR were officially banned, yet they were still tolerated by the regime in practice.

Private farms were not officially banned except in some places during the early Stalinist collectivization effort as long as the plots of land were rather small. Wikipedia seems to get this mostly right (I mostly know about the endgame of this once Russians were in control of the county), without going into details which of course changed over time of how much of the Evil Empire's eggs and potatoes for example were produced in them.

 

[Jump]

sheeeit


Its been fun...I'll miss you frens

 

[Inspector Rex]

It's pointless, you can just use a private bridge or even use a VPN inbetween TOR and your ISP. It's just another episode of authoritarian shitholes half-assing censorship.

It isn't for most Tor users in Russia, because they're not-tech-savvy drug users.

Its been fun...I'll miss you frens

Lol wtf is this @Null

 

[Niggernerd]

B-b-b-but muh Russia is based!!!
Putin cock sleeves gonna cope hard for this lol

 

[seri0us]

sheeeit

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Its been fun...I'll miss you frens

come to kiwifarms.is

 

[Aidan]

Tor has sped up notably since Putin did the needful.

 

[Frail Snail]

Interesting tidbit from page 2:

All right, finally managed to circumvent Snowflake censorship.
Russian DPI check supported_groups extension in ServerHello payload (byte 0x5a in udp packet).
It looks for DTLS packet header “magic” “16 FE FD” and then looks for “1D 00 17 00 18” at 0x5a offset.

At least part of the recent censorship was caused by the default configuration of Go's dtls package because it differed from everything else running on top of websocket apparently. Very spooky that a single line in one of the packages your system depends on can lead to a unique fingerprint without you even being aware of it.