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anyone knows how Russia limited the access?
by mlkmt 5y ago
anyone knows how Russia limited the access?
- abdullin 5y ago(lived in Russia until 2021, not authorative source of info) All ISP providers are required to have black boxes installed on-site. These boxes can do traffic shaping (e.g. Twitter is degraded) and basic filtering based on IP addresses. I think, deep packet inspection is also feasible. Config updates are pushed centrally to these boxes. Self-managed VPNs still work.
- baybal2 5y agoThese ISP blackboxes central command should be a prime target now.
- cutemonster 5y agoWhat about Tor? Or if Twitter gets more IP addresses, they'll work for a short while, until black box config updated?
- orthoxerox 5y agoTor is for nerds, they don't count. You can't expect regular people to run Tor on their phones.
- cutemonster 5y agoIf I ask if there's any place to buy rollerblades nearby, do you think that means I expect everyone to go by rollerblades?
- colinmhayes 5y agoTor provides degraded access without government intervention.