Legitimate question: what do they hope to achieve by this?
There were recently terror attacks in the country... That the police warned about. So they knew and yet the attacks happened. So diddly shit.
VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
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#12Legitimate question: what do they hope to achieve by this?
Legitimately curious response: have you tried thinking through the answer to this question, and if so, what seems like the likely answer in your view? If not, why not?
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#13Nothing 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"
Can you share more on this?
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#14Looks 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.
>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.
Sounds like security theater. Using port knocking isn't going to hide the fact there's a SSH connection between you and some server. If anything, having a non standard configuration (non standard port number or port knocking) makes you more suspicious.
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#15Nothing 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"
Here's some possible evidence that they're alive and well.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http...
Re: VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
#16Nothing 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"
If he's referring to China, sadly he probably won't live to see that day.
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#18Legitimate question: what do they hope to achieve by this?
I'm guessing this is just an attempt to make the social media blocks more effective. And I suppose the purpose of blocking social media is to suppress public discussion and criticism, which is intended to prevent social unrest like protesting, riots or a sudden change in government? I'm not too sure; it's hard to understand from within a society where it's considered a fundamental right to criticise the government.
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#19Nothing 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.
Fortunately for people who care about the health of the internet, I doubt that the Sri Lankan government has the technical acumen or sufficient budget to operate anything similar to the Chinese GFW's DPI abilities.
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#20Looks 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…
> DNS-based
Firefox has build-in DNS over HTTPS. That will help.