Does anyone know how they "shut down https"?
Probably means port 443 is blocked.
Way more sophisticated than that. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3575269
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe http://m.gmail.com ? If they are blocking https traffic, they are almost certainly intercepting and scanning http traffic (lots of countries do this, e.g. lots of UK ISPs did this to censor wikipedia). So, even if you were to be able to access gmail over http, you probably don't want to. :)
What parts of Wikipedia did they censor? Quite interested in that.
I'm guessing it's this case he's referring to: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/07/brit_isps_censor_wik...
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe http://m.gmail.com ? If they are blocking https traffic, they are almost certainly intercepting and scanning http traffic (lots of countries do this, e.g. lots of UK ISPs did this to censor wikipedia). So, even if you were to be able to access gmail over http, you probably don't want to. :)
What parts of Wikipedia did they censor? Quite interested in that.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe http://m.gmail.com ? If they are blocking https traffic, they are almost certainly intercepting and scanning http traffic (lots of countries do this, e.g. lots of UK ISPs did this to censor wikipedia). So, even if you were to be able to access gmail over http, you probably don't want to. :)
What parts of Wikipedia did they censor? Quite interested in that.
The article Virgin Killer was blocked for four days because of "child pornography".
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#46This is why good old analogue amateur or personal radio should still be a powerful force for people who are rebelling against their governments and corporate overlords.
The Internet is easy to kill, as are digital cell-based radio networks. Proper amateur radio is not.
Jamming is not that effective over a large area before anyone suggests that.
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#47Are there any solutions for web browsing like Onlive ( http://www.onlive.co.uk/ ) does for video gaming? It would be significantly harder for them to datamine a video stream..
That is actually how the iOS Flash players like iSwifter and Photon works. It's just a video stream (seen from weird MPEG-compression artifacts) to a Linux VM running Firefox.
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#48Does anyone know how they "shut down https"?
Typically Deep packet inspection. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX46Qv_b7F4 covers techniques different governments are using and the countermeasures deployed by tor
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#49If you can't believe that governments are using deep packet inspection and block access to popular sites have a look at the 28C3 talk How governments have tried to block Tor
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX46Qv_b7F4 it covers different governments and how they tried to block access to the TOR network
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#50So its time to grab our steganography handbooks and build a cute little animal picture channel patch for open ssh.