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As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, WhatsApp

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Re: As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, WhatsApp

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It's an interesting flavor of "No True Scotsman" when you've managed to argue that every resolver on every OS in the world is "stupid stuff that isn't DNSSEC". If DNSSEC only works if you're using a custom fully-recursing resolver, not present on any mainstream operating system or built into a single piece of software you install on your machine, what exactly is the point of signing a zone? So far as you're concerned…

DNSSEC has a very clear specification a few widespread implementations. What you are talking about fit to those? Are you really making FUD about it, by claiming unrelated logical fallacies in a non-boolean discussion? How does a "no true Scotsman" even applies to something that has a published standard? I know you don't like it, yet, I have never seen any proposal that brings you the assurances DNSSEC brings. AFAIK,…

It feels like you're not as familiar with the spec as you think you are.

DNSSEC defines stub resolvers, both validating and non-validating. Validating stub resolvers do their own supplemental recursive lookups to confirm DNSSEC validation. Non-validating stub resolvers do not: they strictly determine DNSSEC trust by checking for the "ad" header bit in the response from their upstream recursive resolver.

Every operating system, Linux distribution, and application that I'm aware of defaults to having a non-validating stub resolver (if it enables DNSSEC validation at all). This renders DNSSEC validation as performed by the overwhelming majority of systems vulnerable to the risk we're flagging here.

Re: As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, WhatsApp

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Iran is geographically two countries away from Israel, the country that clandestinely fomented similar riots/insurrections in 10+ other countries that border Israel during the Arab Spring. Furthermore, Israel has been greatly outspoken in its hatred of Iran and Iran's nuclear program, going so far as to deploy the most sophisticated cyberattack in history[1]. It would hardly be a conspiracy theory to pin this on Isra…

How many major protests have happened in Iran over the past ten years? That's actually a serious question. I remember big ones in 2019. Smaller ones since in the time before the current uprising. Some before 2019 as well. There's tremendous anger beneath the surface in Iran and it's not caused by Mossad. Iran banned abortion in 1979. There's been a baby boom since. The country is lopsided towards young people. People…

Edit: Missed the gay part. It’s more complicated than it looks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_history_in_Iran . But while I agree there’s official repression, I heard an argument once that a gay person who keeps it private is capable of natural reproduction in iran, whereas in the modern western gay family, they have to go through surrogacy, which is not cheap and outprices some men, not sure if even common. So in this sense the percentage of gays in the US will shrink over time but they have good gay rights. The other is the Iranian government repression rarely comes into action. if a male is known to be gay by those around him, good chance he won’t get reported to government since the punishment is too extreme for anyone to bear it on their conscious, even if the person is truly religious, they prefer to be wrong, and if they are correct, government and the muslim law requires witnesses or conclusive evidence, otherwise defamation. Muslim law bans gays, it "happens" to ban defamation but not sure what is the punishment of the latter. So in this climate the way of loudly claiming gay rights on streets not only embarrasses one’s acquaintances since defiance of norms, it is actually self-sentencing. This is a tight bound, but there’s no law in iran or anywhere else I assume that forces men to marry anyone throughout their lives. There’s formal repression, less rights, but reality is also important.

Re: As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, WhatsApp

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What are the odds someone makes iranstagram.com lol Edit: i've just read the article. disheartening series of events. my country philippines has flaws but damn i can still say i'm lucky in a lot of ways.

I was thinking more like sneaker net - passing thumb drives of photos and videos around

Or content based addressing, so that there isn't any network traffic to censor in the first place.

Re: As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, WhatsApp

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I'm an Iranian living in Italy and have an Italian phone/WhatsApp number. Couldn't call anyone or receive WhatsApp calls to/from Iranian and non-Iranian numbers yesterday afternoon when the internet blocking started in Iran. It was like all numbers somehow in touch with Iranian contacts were blocked from completing calls. As soon as either side of the call would answer, the call would end with a message like you are…

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Re: As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, WhatsApp

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I’ve seen many tweets from people in Germany, USA, Turkey etc. that they can’t access their WhatsApp account. Seems to be both Iranian government and Meta. Edit: can be a compromised CDN. See https://twitter.com/roozbehp/status/1572841090910388225?s=46... Edit 2: Videos are being removed too https://twitter.com/youranonstory/status/1572747450368290816... Edit 3: from Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/protests-i…

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Re: As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, WhatsApp

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This protest is very different from previous protests. Look it up. Women in Iran are just tired of being oppressed and their movement is an embodiment of feminism. I'm an Iranian and unfortunately this protest hasn't received world wide attention in the news. This is a first time women taking the lead in protesting against this tyrannical regime.

It's been on the BBC front page about a woman lead protest since a few days ago

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Re: As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, WhatsApp

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This is AbsoF'ingLutely wrong and directly repeats the propaganda that the government of Iran is trying to spread. I dare the use to provide any proof of the surgery (any credible news outlet that have verified this). The video released by the government lacks the very basic authentication data like time, date, and location and it has also been cut and altered in multiple sections. I'm deeply saddened that the regime…

source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/28/what-we-know-after-...

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well if misinformation is causing the protests it's still a good thing. the Iranian people need to free themselves of the regime. wether it is done under false pretenses does not matter, just that it is done.

The main instigator has been Iranian Masih Alinejad, who is given FBI protection and occasionally works with high level US govt.

Re: As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, WhatsApp

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A disgusting lie. And at the same time it is simply not a good argument against the unrest even if true. Irans totalitarian regime deserve to face its people.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/28/what-we-know-after-...
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