VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
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Re: VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
#2Looks like it's mostly DNS-based. Meh. But still, this underscores the importance of operating your own VPN if you want to maintain comms through the silly twitches of a gov't like this. The biggest VPN providers are the first to be targeted. Even just having an SSH host outside the country will do fine.
On another note, I recently set up a Tor bridge with pluggable transports to help those in choked areas. It was a fun homelab challenge, and a good way to spread my privilege of having a free connection.
Re: VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
#3Looks like it's mostly DNS-based. Meh. But still, this underscores the importance of operating your own VPN if you want to maintain comms through the silly twitches of a gov't like this. The biggest VPN providers are the first to be targeted. Even just having an SSH host outside the country will do fine. On another note, I recently set up a Tor bridge with pluggable transports to help those in choked areas. It was a…
A VPS with a simple SSH server on a nonstandard port, maybe with some port knocking if you think you might be scanned or targeted by accessing from the offending country will do the trick just fine, keeping things reaaaally low profile.
Re: VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
#4Looks like it's mostly DNS-based. Meh. But still, this underscores the importance of operating your own VPN if you want to maintain comms through the silly twitches of a gov't like this. The biggest VPN providers are the first to be targeted. Even just having an SSH host outside the country will do fine. On another note, I recently set up a Tor bridge with pluggable transports to help those in choked areas. It was a…
A VPS with a simple SSH server on a nonstandard port, maybe with some port knocking if you think you might be scanned or targeted by accessing from the offending country will do the trick just fine, keeping things reaaaally low profile.
ssh over https, using proxytunnel works really good too. Looks like regular https traffic. And in addition to forwarding individual ports, openssh also has full vpn capability using tun/tap devices.
Re: VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
#5Nothing a personal shadowSOCKS server cant handle. It works with the great firewall and theres no way Sri Lankas filter is stronger than Chinas.
Re: VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
#6Nothing a personal shadowSOCKS server cant handle. It works with the great firewall and theres no way Sri Lankas filter is stronger than Chinas.
Speaking of shadowsocks, I really feel sorry for the author.. I believe his final words were "I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing"
Re: VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
#7Nothing a personal shadowSOCKS server cant handle. It works with the great firewall and theres no way Sri Lankas filter is stronger than Chinas.
The sad fact is that oppressive governments don't really care. A few geeks who can pierce the firewall are no threat, the government just needs to choke the internet enough to prevent the general public from organising.
Re: VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
#8They've also banned drones.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sri-lanka-bans-d...
Re: VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
#9Legitimate question: what do they hope to achieve by this?
Re: VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
#10Blocks like this are why I always recommend friends overseas to not use a VPN for which they've ever seen an advertisement. The small guys offer performance that's just as good and the big guys having ten times the number of servers doesn't help when their whole list can be blocked in an instant.