Isnt' SNI based on the 'Host' header?! This is a news for me that SNI is not encrypted in TLS. Its a problem with the protocol not the ISPs then.
Investigating TLS Blocking in India
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
As stated in my comment, I am using a DoH provider outside the country, but see similar blocking results as the article. Handling DNS alone isn’t going to work all the time, which is what the article detailed out.
Did you try https://getintra.org/ (hint: it isnt your typical DoH client)? You're in for a surprise. Source: Work extensively on an Intra fork.
I read through https://support.getintra.org/s/article/How-Intra-works and it sounds exactly like any other DoH client with a denylist.
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#33I run a tech company that got randomly blocked in India. There's no way it wasn't some kind of mistake. It's been months and there's no way to find out why and there's no documented method to resolve the problem. While looking into this, it turns out it happens all the time and many websites have been blocked for years. If you're big enough then maybe you can get unblocked. Or you might just be SOL. Some examples: ht…
Which ISP are you using? Because alexa.com, trinet.com, behance.net, NYTimes are working for me.
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#34I remember visiting India as a kid with my family, and one of my cousins telling me about an America TV series that was banned. I didn't think much of it at the time, but as I've grown older, I've really come to appreciate the freedom of speech we have in America. I just wrote a post about it: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/why-i-no-longer-hate-amer... India is literally the largest democratic country by populati…
https://rsf.org/en/ranking It seems you are not that right.
And it seems anyone who has traveled outside of their home country recognizes this list as the bullshit that it is. Please stop linking it.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
What good is all of this semblance of free speech when the communication and print platforms of our age that enable the transmission of vast portions of our speech essentially dictate what they will carry and what they wont. Unless you publish a physical book of course and then promote it and distribute it yourself or on a much smaller scale, you post pamphlets on utility poles or other such low tech-low reach media,…
>I don't know what you're getting at ( in this post ; I havent read your blog post yet ) America currently is one of the most restrictive places on earth to express your thoughts and then hope to have them transmitted fairly to a wide swath of people, both geographically and ideologically. I'm in America, and I can access plenty of racist, sexist, government propaganda, anti government propaganda, anti religion, pro…
Whether a tech-savvy person can run boolean searches on 5 different search engines ( that may not even be English-first engines ) and then find a "Daily Stormer" or two is not the point here - youre either missing the point entirely or deliberately gaslighting here.
The point is that the content is hard to reach and nearly inaccessible to wide swaths of the population if the forces that be, deem that content troubling, to the people in their walled gardens and the ideological bubbles, they operate in.
This way, you can effectively screen and curate what views and slants reach the masses and manufacture consensus around an issue easily. You and me and the tech-inclined can find easy workarounds but that is besides the point.
Thats a huge problem.
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#36Will TLS 1.3 and ESNI support circumvent this?
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#38I remember visiting India as a kid with my family, and one of my cousins telling me about an America TV series that was banned. I didn't think much of it at the time, but as I've grown older, I've really come to appreciate the freedom of speech we have in America. I just wrote a post about it: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/why-i-no-longer-hate-amer... India is literally the largest democratic country by populati…
> I remember visiting India as a kid with my family, and one of my cousins telling me about an America TV series that was banned. I didn't think much of it at the time, but as I've grown older, I've really come to appreciate the freedom of speech we have in America.
I don't get that statement. For example, there are a lot of banned TV series in "America" (I assume USA?), too. Not even going to mention all that other censorship there ... I didn't read your article yet, though. Just in case you clarify on that statement there.
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#39Isnt' SNI based on the 'Host' header?! This is a news for me that SNI is not encrypted in TLS. Its a problem with the protocol not the ISPs then.
Encrypted SNI has been in talks for a long time now. It was meant to be out now but it was shot down at the last minute. And yes, its the last thing that allows a MitM to work out which site you are on if its hosted on a shared hosting platform. Likely this is the reason its hard to get approved.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://rsf.org/en/ranking It seems you are not that right.
And it seems anyone who has traveled outside of their home country recognizes this list as the bullshit that it is. Please stop linking it.
Any source for that, looks pretty good to me? Been to 30 or so different countries but not entirely sure why traveling abroad is relevant.