ProtonMail blocked by Vodafone Turkey

Post by jerheinze » Fri, Mar 16, 2018, 8:48 AM UTC

forapurpose wrote: post #47

jerheinze wrote: post #16

To get the Tor Browser try to download it from the official Github repository: https://github.com/thetorproject/gettorbrowser Then use meek-amazon as a pluggable transport which should work.

> ... should work If it doesn't, people could get arrested and worse. Is this advice reliable enough for that level of risk?

Post by Erlich_Bachman » Fri, Mar 16, 2018, 8:52 AM UTC

dogma1138 wrote: post #44

qwerty456127 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Technolgoists need to remember that tech is nothing without law. It works both ways. A law can be almost nothing without technical means to enforce it efficiently. There can be cases that make a law [almost] futile so the governments give it up. E.g. many governments tried to ban alcohol but it's so easy (yet dangerous as it can blow up and set the house on fire, especially if the cook is drunk and/or the hardware…

The technical means to enforce a law are a bunch of guys with sharp sticks.

Post by Erlich_Bachman » Fri, Mar 16, 2018, 8:57 AM UTC

bogomipz wrote: post #57

protonmail wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ProtonMail team here. Here is our assessment about how ProtonMail compares to Gmail from the security/privacy perspective: https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-vs-gmail-security/

>"No tracking and logging Google records literally every action done by its users. This includes your IP address, every search that you do, which emails you open, which websites you visit, and much more. ProtonMail takes the opposite approach and by default, does not monitor or record user activity, not even IP addresses." Has this been verified by an independent third party? Also how do you determine there's an issu…

Post by jerrre » Fri, Mar 16, 2018, 9:04 AM UTC

gukov wrote: post #79

rocky1138 wrote: post #78

A totalitarian government blocking a service is a good sign they are unable to break its security and thus use it as a surveillance tool. It's a great advertisement for ProtonMail.

Unable to break its security or the service's owners are not cooperating.

Post by oblio » Fri, Mar 16, 2018, 9:46 AM UTC

jlgaddis wrote: post #97

JepZ wrote: post #29

Actually, I am not sure if it wise to circumvent that block. I mean its probably as easy as typing echo "8.8.8.8" > /etc/hosts to a root shell, but since we know that in the past people have been send to prison, just because some app on their phone requested an URL from the wrong domain, I suspect that something similarly can happen to the people who try to use Proton mail. On the other hand, if everybody stops using…

Presumably, you mean: echo 8.8.8.8 > /etc/resolv.conf