just checked - OpenVPN works just fine if all traffic is local (we use it to access company network).
Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
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#192What is interesting is that since 2022 a lot of sites and host services decided to ban access from Russia. Quite often to a very simple things - nothing related to technology. And I don't remember anybody outside Russia found it crazy. (I am too lazy for VPN and accessed through web.archive.org to the most of the stuff). So, when Russia closes some access it is an attack on the freedom. And when West blocks access fr…
"That's different" (tm)
We are supposed to go overthrow Putin to get LinkedIn and Spotify back (or something).
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#193IKEv2 hasn't worked since last fall (and mine was self-hosted). They keep upgrading the DPI.
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It is a fact that Kremlin sponsored psyops campaigns worked to hinder her candidacy. The Mueller report laid this out in detail. To answer your question, I think they were wondering if this would make it more difficult for Russian groups to do perform these psyops jobs. My thought is no: these groups will likely not have to deal much with these firewalls, considering they're explicitly backed by the Kremlin in their…
I've received some downvotes here that I don't quite understand, I am guessing folks haven't read the report or understood it:
High level reporting of the report contents: https://time.com/5610317/mueller-report-myths-breakdown/
Volume 1 of the report itself, a pretty easy read really: https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download
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I don't know. People said the same thing about the invasion to begin with. That it would cause significant economic harm to Russia, cause civil unrest, and so on. Yet they did it and pulled through somehow. I don't they'll hesitate to do it if they see the need to. Putin wants the Soviet times back at any cost. He has many strings he can pull if he feels threatened.
Bread and circuses. It's weird to say, but I do believe that banning circuses (the internet) would cause more problems than a conscription.
> circuses (the internet)
According to a Russian resident I follow on social media, over the last 2 years Russians improved their localized circuses: VK, mail.ru, etc. The guy says these are now somewhat close to the originals i.e. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bread and circuses. It's weird to say, but I do believe that banning circuses (the internet) would cause more problems than a conscription.
> circuses (the internet) According to a Russian resident I follow on social media, over the last 2 years Russians improved their localized circuses: VK, mail.ru, etc. The guy says these are now somewhat close to the originals i.e. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
How is the Russian equivalent of Marvel doing? Is there a strong Manga production? How many AAA games does Russia produce? K-pop is pretty popular in Russia, how about that?
Internet/media has a very long tail, which Russia can't hope to replace.
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#197Unfortunately, thanks to the Great Firewall of China, there has been a lot of resources put in to fingerprint VPNs and block them by state actors. Fortunately, however, there is equally years of some of the smartest minds on the planet working to bypass Chinese censorship, so there are some great OpenVPN alternatives. I really encourage you to look into something like Shadowsocks which Chinese people have found great…
I imagine that is something that is not "top secret" that Xi can easily share with Putin and something that could be applied almost immediately to routers in Russia. That sucks that Russians can't see other perspectives. It doesn't seem to matter a lot since 80% of Russians still support him mindlessly, but those other 20% can help set a seed of doubt on his atrocities and autocratic lies but not if they can't get info.
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#198Hey there! Lots of experience with this having lived in China for 2 years. I recommend you look into xray-core or v2ray.
https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core
https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core
Here are my configs: https://github.com/acheong08/notes/tree/main/xray
Why this over WireGuard or OpenVPN or commercial solutions? Because it’s obfuscated and you’re much less likely to get caught. Try hosting a small game server on the same machine as well so the traffic doesn’t look too out of place.
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Shadowsocks and ShadowsocksR don’t work anymore in my experience in China or Iran. V2ray does which is the successor to those.
I wonder how many of these services are just state actors, who can then track people more directly.
If I was in Russia I would be a lot less afraid of USA/Britain/Germany MITM than I would of Putin's agents catching wind of the free flow of information and coming for me and my family and throwing us off the roof or putting polonium in our water supply.
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What's the current legal risk of using a VPN in China or Russia these days? I found a couple articles about people getting charged, but none I know to be reputable or particularly well written.
I guess it depends on what sites you want to visit using VPN. People here in Russia openly use VPN to visit Instagram etc., and no one seems to have an issue with that. But if you want to read some opposition sites, however... Now that's some gray area.
If the VPN is working then they wouldn't know if you're going to instagram or fuckrussianoppression.org tho