Why "finally"? From a quick search it seems a shot at Belarus' desire to ban Tor back in 2015 but only now achieving it.
Lukashenko has to get around to it lol
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#22I know very little of networking but I assume to perform a TCP reset injection attack, the ISP would need to rely on the IP address of the public onion routers. Now, why do they play around with the reset flag instead of just simply swallowing the packets directed at a tor router?
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#23I wonder about the first RST with zeros in the sequence and acknowledge fields. Probably just bad software but if it is always the first RST it could be a sort of canary such that people in the "know" could note the malformed reset and pre-program a 'ignore RST this session' bit.
I guess they had to custom build a solution for this and screwed it up. The weird thing is that it seems like this should have been caught in testing. Unless it is a form of silent protest from the hapless programmers forced to write this oppression aid. Might even be some IOCCC level trickery at play here where it works in testing and with official IP addresses, but doesn't work for the majority of the population.
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#24Can someone please explain the "fried potatoes are better with onion"? Is this an in-joke? A secret key? Many potatoes, -l
It's just a good reminder.
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#27Is it possible for anyone to share the full text of the post for those of use behind a great firewall? Edit: thanks!
You know things are looking bad when the post reporting on censorship is censored.
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#28Coming soon to a jurisdiction near you!
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#29I thought we aren't supposed to talk politics on HN anymore..
What a terrible decision that was. Glad it was reversed. It never would've worked.
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#30Can someone please explain the "fried potatoes are better with onion"? Is this an in-joke? A secret key? Many potatoes, -l
From wikipedia:
In the Soviet Union, Belarusians were sometimes called bulbashi, a pejorative conjugation of the Belarusian word for potato.