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Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in Turkey following leaks

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Re: Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in Turkey following leaks

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Post by Svenskunganka »

wruza wrote: post #24
decafbad wrote: post #14

It's a torrent file you damn ignorant politicians. Tell your favorite IT guys to block this : magnet:?xt=urn:btih:489b0cef1d7d49fe5ae2ae8cc2f0708b8286cbb3&dn=All+mail+Including+Spam+and+Trash.rar

176/354. Hmm, it is pretty popular, will seed until 10.0.

Yeah it's more popular than I thought it would be. Currently seeding it with my 1Gbit which is maxed out at ~112MB/sec, and looking at the peers there are people from all over the world that are grabbing it. Either there are lots of VPN users in the swarm or people are very interested in reading what the dump contains.

Hopefully we'll see some more revalations in the upcoming days, I am worried about the path Turkey is going but in the end it is the Turkish citizens that decide.

Re: Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in Turkey following leaks

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Post by mtgx »

mediumdeviation wrote: post #40
hd4 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even China can only limit their citizens access to the extent that it doesn't totally hinder economic growth. They would never be able to completely insulate themselves from the "outer" internet without massive harm to themselves, the same goes for any country in this day and age. The risk of harm will always outweigh the minimal discomfort through free and open discourse that the internet inherently brings with it.

Actually what happens in China is that homegrown tech companies will take over the market space left by Western ones, which the government is perfectly happy to let happen because 1. It keeps the tech industry domestic 2. The servers are physically inside China, guaranteeing them access to the data This is why I've always thought that the Great Firewall's purpose is not only censorship, but also a form of Internet-ag…

Yes, but they wouldn't be able to do that abruptly. That's why they are now forcing all American companies to create "joint ventures" with the local Chinese companies, which can steal the American technology, and then say 10 years later, the American part can be removed.

And American companies seem to go along with it, thinking they have no choice. They do, but they're too scared to lose the Chinese market to risk anything at all, and second, they're too shortsighted to create strong alliances with their competitors to speak out against Chinese policies.

Think about how Microsoft was ecstatic that Google was getting banned from China, believing this would be an "opportunity" for the company to gain market share - it wasn't. Baidu filled out all the vacuum left by Google. And now Microsoft has to accept whatever bullshit policies China throws at it, too.

Instead of allying with Google and others, it thought it can pull one over Google. That's the kind of shortsighted thinking I'm talking about. If American companies want to thrive in China, they need to create strong alliances and cooperate more against bad Chinese government policies, and not sell each other out for some promised short-term gains, that they'll lose in the end to local companies anyway.

Re: Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in Turkey following leaks

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Post by nikcub »

0x0 wrote: post #16

Someone on Reddit highlighted that the block seems to key off of the SSL SNI header, regardless of which IP you try to connect to. There must be some Deep Packet Inspection going on here, then? https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/56h0s3/they_just_bl... Is the blocking able to handle stuff like fragrouter where the TCP stream is broken down into 1byte payload packets?

We started seeing more sophisticated DPI capabilities after the Feb '14 internet regulations[0] that required ISPs to block by URL and content strings

IMO blocking so many sites so broadly is a sign that their DPI is failing, because their preference seems to be to block as narrowly as possible because of negative economic effects.

[0] http://aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkey-s-general-assembly-ratifie...

Re: Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in Turkey following leaks

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Post by yak0 »

decafbad wrote: post #14

It's a torrent file you damn ignorant politicians. Tell your favorite IT guys to block this : magnet:?xt=urn:btih:489b0cef1d7d49fe5ae2ae8cc2f0708b8286cbb3&dn=All+mail+Including+Spam+and+Trash.rar

thanks idiot now they will block ycombinator

Re: Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in Turkey following leaks

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Post by subliminalpanda »

batuhanicoz wrote: post #17

This is so annoying for us. I'm not using Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive but GitHub is the tool we use the most as a software agency. We've set-up a VPN server for our team for the moment. Only good thing coming from this is that I've discovered a software called Pritunl today which made setting up the VPN pretty easy.

Streisand [https://github.com/jlund/streisand] works quite well too.

Re: Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in Turkey following leaks

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Post by trashcanaccount »

Svenskunganka wrote: post #41
wruza wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

176/354. Hmm, it is pretty popular, will seed until 10.0.

Yeah it's more popular than I thought it would be. Currently seeding it with my 1Gbit which is maxed out at ~112MB/sec, and looking at the peers there are people from all over the world that are grabbing it. Either there are lots of VPN users in the swarm or people are very interested in reading what the dump contains. Hopefully we'll see some more revalations in the upcoming days, I am worried about the path Turkey…

I'm one that doesn't care what it contains, but want to help keep it available for those who do care. I typically just seed linux isos and other free software, but when there are leaks or other things that people care about I'll chip in too.

I don't have 1 Gbps, so thanks for providing that bandwidth to the swarm, even if it's only for a short amount of time.

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