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Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

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Post by reirob »

hal9000xp wrote: post #20

I live in Russia (Moscow) and I'm working for leading russian internet company. I'm very annoyed by current political and economical situation. I was so upset by events happening last months that I simply stopped reading russian news at all. And I spent all the time in places like GitHub, Topcoder, English Wikipedia, Hacker News etc. Yesterday, I've tried to make yet another commit to my private repository and sudden…

Thanks for posting this insight! I am in Europe and I am really scared about that the situation between Western World and Russia could escalate even more. Second Cold War is not far away now. I deeply hope that both opponents US/Europe/Ukraine and Russia will find a diplomatic way out of this situation that will allow to carry on.

The world has so many other problems - ecological, economical, viral, terrorists - to care of. I have sympathies for Ukraine, but it really pisses me off that we are on a brink of war and this because in a small part of Ukraina (in proportions to europe/world) there are people who want to separate. It's crazy. Just let them vote and if they want, let them go instead of having them as a burden blocking you in your future adventures. The situation with Scotland and Catalonia is/was similar, but there was no need to such drastic measures. Especially that we Europeans and Russians share the same continent. We should learn to live together.

Sorry, it's my opinion, it's not about technology, but had just to leave my chest.

Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

#52

Post by guycalledfrank »

leonardinius wrote: post #50
hal9000xp wrote: post #20

I live in Russia (Moscow) and I'm working for leading russian internet company. I'm very annoyed by current political and economical situation. I was so upset by events happening last months that I simply stopped reading russian news at all. And I spent all the time in places like GitHub, Topcoder, English Wikipedia, Hacker News etc. Yesterday, I've tried to make yet another commit to my private repository and sudden…

I feel for you. Do you feel "generally safe" leaving comments like this online? For both physical security and job security? What's the mood out there - is opposition a safe thing or something you whisper your wife in the kitchen, at night, when children are asleep?

Nobody hides their complaints, but the majority of people seem to actually support current government.

Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

#53

Post by icebraining »

tummybug wrote: post #49
spanasik wrote: post #3

Yes, it is. We have to use VPN in order to pass the filter.

I often find `ssh -D` to setup a local socks proxy far easier than using VPN assuming you have a machine you can connect to in a state that hasn't blocked the sites you are trying to reach.

Checkout sshuttle if you want an easy-to-use "VPN" over SSH.

https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle

Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

#54

Post by vladtaltos »

guycalledfrank wrote: post #45
acqq wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do they ban it actually? In my West (!) European country (I don't know of any European country that doesn't do some censorship) they just serve court order to the providers, the providers remove the entries from the DNS but the banned sites are still reachable using the IP address. They you just need to fix your etc hosts file. Try with https://192.30.252.128 and accept the certificate if it has A0:C4:A7:46:00:ED…

In Russia they seem to force all ISPs to ban specific IP addresses. Obviously, it blocks many stuff, and not just one page. I really HOPE that it'll be resolved soon, because a few months ago we had similar problems with wordpress and even youtube (!), but it was fixed in 1-2 days, because, you know, everyone watches youtube, and blocking half of it makes everyone mad. But github is not what everyone uses, it's just…

I'm travelling frequently to both Russia and Turkey - to avoid having stupid spatial location based limitations I've been using privateinternetaccess.com for more than 6 months now. it's pretty cheap and has gateways all around the world - I recommend it without any hesitation... I especially like having access to streaming video for the shows I watch that is limited to country ip's like the daily show...

Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

#55

Post by [deleted] »

maga wrote: post #24
codeshaman wrote: post #13

Official reason for blocking: the site hosts texts describing methods of suicide. Because Github uses HTTPS only, it's impossible to block only the offending pages, so the whole IP range is blocked. Github ignored their requests to remove the offending content, so the site remains blocked. I hope Russian citizens get a big fat boost of morality from blocking Github. Really, it's not the alcoholism, injustice, corrupt…

I expected something like this, but I thought it would be GitHub blocking Russia, like Google was/is blocking Iran, not the other way around. The situation reminds me of Russia's sanctions against Europe.

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Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

#56

Post by [deleted] »

znowi wrote: post #32

What a nice attack vector. Deliver a "suicidal" payload to a website, report to Russian authorities and watch it go offline in Russia. It might as well be SO or any other site with user content.

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Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

#58

Post by acqq »

guycalledfrank wrote: post #45
acqq wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do they ban it actually? In my West (!) European country (I don't know of any European country that doesn't do some censorship) they just serve court order to the providers, the providers remove the entries from the DNS but the banned sites are still reachable using the IP address. They you just need to fix your etc hosts file. Try with https://192.30.252.128 and accept the certificate if it has A0:C4:A7:46:00:ED…

In Russia they seem to force all ISPs to ban specific IP addresses. Obviously, it blocks many stuff, and not just one page. I really HOPE that it'll be resolved soon, because a few months ago we had similar problems with wordpress and even youtube (!), but it was fixed in 1-2 days, because, you know, everyone watches youtube, and blocking half of it makes everyone mad. But github is not what everyone uses, it's just…

I really suspect the sellers of VPN are involved. Managing to DOS the site that the professionals use, those that are able to use VPN too and are more probae to pay.

Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

#59

Post by guard-of-terra »

leonardinius wrote: post #50
hal9000xp wrote: post #20

I live in Russia (Moscow) and I'm working for leading russian internet company. I'm very annoyed by current political and economical situation. I was so upset by events happening last months that I simply stopped reading russian news at all. And I spent all the time in places like GitHub, Topcoder, English Wikipedia, Hacker News etc. Yesterday, I've tried to make yet another commit to my private repository and sudden…

I feel for you. Do you feel "generally safe" leaving comments like this online? For both physical security and job security? What's the mood out there - is opposition a safe thing or something you whisper your wife in the kitchen, at night, when children are asleep?

Everybody is leaving comments like this. You're more typical if you do than if you don't.

So your risk doesn't get higher than the background risk of living in a corrupt country with broken legal system.

Re: GitHub blocked in Russia

#60

Post by hal9000xp »

guycalledfrank wrote: post #45
acqq wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do they ban it actually? In my West (!) European country (I don't know of any European country that doesn't do some censorship) they just serve court order to the providers, the providers remove the entries from the DNS but the banned sites are still reachable using the IP address. They you just need to fix your etc hosts file. Try with https://192.30.252.128 and accept the certificate if it has A0:C4:A7:46:00:ED…

In Russia they seem to force all ISPs to ban specific IP addresses. Obviously, it blocks many stuff, and not just one page. I really HOPE that it'll be resolved soon, because a few months ago we had similar problems with wordpress and even youtube (!), but it was fixed in 1-2 days, because, you know, everyone watches youtube, and blocking half of it makes everyone mad. But github is not what everyone uses, it's just…

I'm totally agree with you that they don't care about minority at all (by the way, in any field).

I think this issue with GitHub will be resolved soon.

But in general, this Internet Restriction Bill (Federal law of Russian Federation no. 139-FZ of 2012-07-28) is double purpose tool.

On the one hand it serves its first official purpose (i.e. by blocking illegal content). It often do it completely awkward and don't care about legitimate users (the issue with GitHub is the good example).

On the second hand it's very good and easy to use tool for internet censorship. For example, it's so easy to block sites with legitimate information which current regime don't like.

Just think about "sudden" blocking of GitHub or Wikipedia as a training for them (i.e. just to make sure that in case of political instability they can shutdown anything pretty quickly).

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