Re: [tor-talk] News from Iran

[Collin Anderson <collin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just a notice, it appears that the rules blocking SSL to the IPs in
Google/Gmail's DNS round robin have been removed for the two international
gateways, outages are still occurring because a few of the local ISPs
decided to get clever and filter it themselves.

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Mansour Moufid <mansourmoufid@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 2012-09-24, at 2:10 AM, Runa A. Sandvik wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:36 PM, SiNA Rabbani <sina@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Next phase is to do the same with the entire population of Iran. It is
> >> hard for me to imagine the Internet getting completely shutdown. I
> >> suspect they will make SSL traffic very slow to a point that users would
> >> give up and look for other alternatives....
> >
> > Isn't this something they have been doing for a while?
>
> Apparently VPNs were made illegal, but I don't think that was enforced.
>
> Personally, I wish I had to go to the other side of the planet to find
> this kind of thing. Bell, a Canadian ISP, does it too. Not SSL but VPN
> and other traffic their DPI can't identify, is steadily throttled down
> to zero. OTOH, Rogers, the only other ISP, has always messed with DNS.
>
> Iran must be doing this with Canadian tech -- it sounds so familiar.
>
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