Russia Starts Blocking VPN Protocols
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Russia Starts Blocking VPN Protocols
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#2Most VPN services are already blocked in Russia by both mobile and landline providers. Many also block Tor.
However now it seems like Russian mobile providers are blocking not just VPN services but even the underlying VPN protocols (WireGuard, OpenVPN).
Interestingly Telegram is still not blocked in Russia.
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#3How the great firewall of China detects and blocks fully encrypted traffic [pdf] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36531485
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#4sadly, wireguard/openvpn does not not provide any obfuscation mechanism at protocol level
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#5Most VPN services are already blocked in Russia by both mobile and landline providers. Many also block Tor. However now it seems like Russian mobile providers are blocking not just VPN services but even the underlying VPN protocols (WireGuard, OpenVPN). Interestingly Telegram is still not blocked in Russia.
> Interestingly Telegram is still not blocked in Russia.
Could that be taken as a sign that it is not blocked _for a reason_, or is it already too much tinfoil on the head?
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#6Most VPN services are already blocked in Russia by both mobile and landline providers. Many also block Tor. However now it seems like Russian mobile providers are blocking not just VPN services but even the underlying VPN protocols (WireGuard, OpenVPN). Interestingly Telegram is still not blocked in Russia.
> Interestingly Telegram is still not blocked in Russia. Could that be taken as a sign that it is not blocked _for a reason_, or is it already too much tinfoil on the head?
It caused a lot of issues for Russians when they tried to block it, because they basically blocked entire sections of AWS and GCP.
The real tinfoil hat is assuming that they allow it because it's compromised; the founder of Telegram has absolutely no love lost for the Russian state, they basically seized his company (VK; a hugely popular facebook-like which also has a music player and such) and all his assets that were in the country after trying to exert control over him (and his desire not to be controlled); that's why telegram was founded in the first place.
Of course, I have no first-hand account except watching as my video game became unplayable for Russians while the Telegram blocking was happening and my GCP rep explaining it to me, and that I had an Estonian girlfriend for 7 years who was giving me the play-by-play on what was happening.
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#7Most VPN services are already blocked in Russia by both mobile and landline providers. Many also block Tor. However now it seems like Russian mobile providers are blocking not just VPN services but even the underlying VPN protocols (WireGuard, OpenVPN). Interestingly Telegram is still not blocked in Russia.
Probably because the Russian army uses Telegram.
Even their MoD has a channel posting updates and propaganda
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#8Most VPN services are already blocked in Russia by both mobile and landline providers. Many also block Tor. However now it seems like Russian mobile providers are blocking not just VPN services but even the underlying VPN protocols (WireGuard, OpenVPN). Interestingly Telegram is still not blocked in Russia.
It's been blocked, and now officially unblocked
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#9Most VPN services are already blocked in Russia by both mobile and landline providers. Many also block Tor. However now it seems like Russian mobile providers are blocking not just VPN services but even the underlying VPN protocols (WireGuard, OpenVPN). Interestingly Telegram is still not blocked in Russia.
> Interestingly Telegram is still not blocked in Russia. Could that be taken as a sign that it is not blocked _for a reason_, or is it already too much tinfoil on the head?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Interestingly Telegram is still not blocked in Russia. Could that be taken as a sign that it is not blocked _for a reason_, or is it already too much tinfoil on the head?
It caused a lot of issues for Russians when they tried to block it, because they basically blocked entire sections of AWS and GCP. The real tinfoil hat is assuming that they allow it because it's compromised; the founder of Telegram has absolutely no love lost for the Russian state, they basically seized his company (VK; a hugely popular facebook-like which also has a music player and such) and all his assets that we…
While he maintained an office in Russia, for everyone to see, while denying that publicly.