They are late. Turkey already did it few weeks ago.
Belarus finally bans Tor
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Re: Belarus finally bans Tor
#62I'm from Belarus. Belarus laws and politics had been for a long time a playground for Russia. Kinda "before implementing it for all users in production, let's try it on a smaller audience to see if it works or not." So this ban is mostly an exercise for Russia, to get some experience.
I'm from Belarus too. Consider the above a fantasy.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
From wikipedia: In the Soviet Union, Belarusians were sometimes called bulbashi, a pejorative conjugation of the Belarusian word for potato.
Funny, I was just reading about how non-German residents of Germany use "Kartoffel" (potato) as a perjorative for Germans in Germany. I didn't realize "potato" was such an effective insult it would exist in another country too!
In Dutch we say aardappel (earth apple; means potato) to stupid people, not Germans in particular as far as I knew. It might originate from that, I don't know.
Wat een aardappel! "What a dummy!"
Re: Belarus finally bans Tor
#64I'm from Belarus. Belarus laws and politics had been for a long time a playground for Russia. Kinda "before implementing it for all users in production, let's try it on a smaller audience to see if it works or not." So this ban is mostly an exercise for Russia, to get some experience.
I'm from Finlan ld but visting the US, till February and I have a feeling US will watch Belarus very closely to see if it is successful thrn will try to quietly implement a ban or interfere with Tor as best as they can. Rule 41 is a mere Apptizer. The Americans have yet to receive their Entrés. What's even more scary is the radical laws being fought for in Canada as of today.
I doubt it, the US government invented and has been a major sponsor to the tor project.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Usually via traditional investigative means.
And then they exploit Firefox bugs to drop phone-home malware on users. But so far, it's only been Windows malware :) And it relies on bypassing Tor's socks proxy.
If you truly wanted anonymity why wouldn't you buy a $35 raspberry pi and stuff it between your computer and the internet and route all traffic through it through tor? Too many zero days out there in browsers, flash, java, office not to mention configuration slip ups that could nullify your tor protection.
Re: Belarus finally bans Tor
#66We are talking about a political ban, on politics detox week. Why is this thread still here?
I see nothing about security or routing technology, just reportage on the actions of a government - politics.
Re: Belarus finally bans Tor
#67We are talking about a political ban, on politics detox week. Why is this thread still here? I see nothing about security or routing technology, just reportage on the actions of a government - politics.
The week-long experiment was terminated early. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13133855
Re: Belarus finally bans Tor
#68Got me thinking about hidden communication techniques using DNS queries or ICMP as the "transport" layer. That would confuse the hell out of everyone :P
Re: Belarus finally bans Tor
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
And then they exploit Firefox bugs to drop phone-home malware on users. But so far, it's only been Windows malware :) And it relies on bypassing Tor's socks proxy.
If you truly wanted anonymity why wouldn't you buy a $35 raspberry pi and stuff it between your computer and the internet and route all traffic through it through tor? Too many zero days out there in browsers, flash, java, office not to mention configuration slip ups that could nullify your tor protection.
"buy a $35 raspberry pi and stuff it between your computer and the internet and route all traffic through it through tor? Too many zero days out there in browsers, flash, java, office"
How does Raspberry Pi help here? If it routes traffic at IP level, it will be transparent at an application level. Firewall/IDS won't help against zero days either.
Re: Belarus finally bans Tor
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
And then they exploit Firefox bugs to drop phone-home malware on users. But so far, it's only been Windows malware :) And it relies on bypassing Tor's socks proxy.
If you truly wanted anonymity why wouldn't you buy a $35 raspberry pi and stuff it between your computer and the internet and route all traffic through it through tor? Too many zero days out there in browsers, flash, java, office not to mention configuration slip ups that could nullify your tor protection.
Raspberry's firmware is not Open Source, that's why. Might just as well full of vulnerabilities and/or backdoors.