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Re: Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use

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Post by Tepix »

hkjgkjy wrote: post #38
Tepix wrote: post #34

Decentralization is key to bypass these type of firewalls. All commercial VPN vendors will be on blacklists sooner or later. Hang around lowendtalk / lowendbox and rent a tiny dir cheap VPS. Just SSH there and use the SOCKS5 proxy built into SSH. I hope they will not block SSH any time soon. If they do you can set up a HTTPS website on your VPS with a secret proxy.

Shows the importance of using simple tools. Similarly, I've recently discovered how to send encrypted email from your command line, really really easy (note that Gmail throws these away if they come from an invalid domain name). `echo "This is a secret message" | gpg -e -a -r "recipients@gpg.key" | mail -s "Your eyecatching subject line" recipients-email@example.com`

For encryption using S/MIME with mailx (from heirloom-mailx), see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12742809

Re: Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use

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Post by rokosbasilisk »

eloy wrote: post #3

Events like this is the reason I operate a few Tor Bridges. It gives uncensored internet to vulnerable people in countries that are (semi-)dictatorships. The Streisand VPN includes a Tor Bridge by default, so if you ever have problems with an advanced firewall that blocks most VPN protocols, Streisand with Tor is your friend. Tor Bridges are also a nice playground for modern cryptography, they are working on PQ Crypt…

I think uncensored internet is under attack in general even in the america and europe. No one with power seems to like the idea of stuff they cant control.

Re: Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use

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Post by tyingq »

Yaggo wrote: post #39
bogomipz wrote: post #30

This is the same President that turned to the internet - via Twitter and Facetime when there was a coup attempt against him, asking for them to help. http://www.wsj.com/articles/erdogan-embraces-social-media-to...

(Cannot read the paywalled article.) I wonder how FaceTime was utilized, given that it's one-to-one link, not social media.

It was super low tech...a CNN Turk anchor held her phone up to a TV camera. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/07/17/01/3658391B0000057...

Re: Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use

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Post by coldtea »

kutkloon7 wrote: post #13

The arrest and torture of an exorbitant number of 'enemies of the state', including judges, police officers, and teachers, indicates more important problems in Turkey. For some reason, a lot of Turks still seem to support Erdogan. The West doesn't really care what he does, as long as Turkey takes care of most of the refugees. A disgusting European policy.

>For some reason, a lot of Turks still seem to support Erdogan. The West doesn't really care what he does, as long as Turkey takes care of most of the refugees. A disgusting European policy.

That's probably for the best. In the areas that there were leaders that West did care about (or pretended to, for control and resources) and actively intervened, they created hell holes of civil war, chaos and fundamentalism.

Re: Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use

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Post by myf01d »

kutkloon7 wrote: post #13

The arrest and torture of an exorbitant number of 'enemies of the state', including judges, police officers, and teachers, indicates more important problems in Turkey. For some reason, a lot of Turks still seem to support Erdogan. The West doesn't really care what he does, as long as Turkey takes care of most of the refugees. A disgusting European policy.

Because there is now a sufficient majority of Turks who want to destroy the secular Turkey, apply gradually more and more islamic country and get rid of Turkey's within enemies: Secular people and Kurds. Erdogan is just listening to the people like he says, he only additionally wants to destroy and humiliate his personal and political enemies because he is a psycho. Furthermore, he adores money, his family built an multi-billion empire during his reign.

Re: Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use

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Post by Bombthecat »

rahrahrah wrote: post #20
willvarfar wrote: post #14

Anyone else remember the time the TurkTrust cert was used to mitm Google? https://www.google.se/amp/s/nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/01... Does Turkey still have a key the gov can use to mitm connections terminating there? And if so, can someone make instructions in Turkish on how to blacklist the Turkish TLS certs in mainstream browsers so that the gov can't mitm their own citizens? For that matter, I don't want a Tu…

I've heard about problems with trusting certain certificates. Any suggestion where I can read about these specific matters that you mentioned? Thanks.

Mozilla has a Google discussion forum for stuff like that. Just Google stardom and Mozilla discussion:)

Re: Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use

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Post by pluma »

retox wrote: post #6

And the EU says we should welcome them in to Europe...

There was a very tight window of opportunity where that was realistic. At the time the only things standing in Turkey's way were the denial of the Armenian genocide and the death penalty.

That window however closed a long time ago. Turkey was very reluctant to change either of these two things and EU member states weren't exactly crazy about the idea of Turkey becoming a member either.

The EU's relations with Turkey are pretty bad right now. The only ace up Turkey's sleeve right now is the refugee crisis (and, to a lesser extent, their NATO membership).

Re: Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use

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Post by petre »

kutkloon7 wrote: post #13

The arrest and torture of an exorbitant number of 'enemies of the state', including judges, police officers, and teachers, indicates more important problems in Turkey. For some reason, a lot of Turks still seem to support Erdogan. The West doesn't really care what he does, as long as Turkey takes care of most of the refugees. A disgusting European policy.

Erdogan has reignited PKK terrorism.

Re: Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use

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Post by a1a »

Tepix wrote: post #34

Decentralization is key to bypass these type of firewalls. All commercial VPN vendors will be on blacklists sooner or later. Hang around lowendtalk / lowendbox and rent a tiny dir cheap VPS. Just SSH there and use the SOCKS5 proxy built into SSH. I hope they will not block SSH any time soon. If they do you can set up a HTTPS website on your VPS with a secret proxy.

How? I bet most commercial VPN services rotates on billions of different IPv6 addresses (from completely different subnets that is).

Re: Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use

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Post by [deleted] »

myf01d wrote: post #45
kutkloon7 wrote: post #13

The arrest and torture of an exorbitant number of 'enemies of the state', including judges, police officers, and teachers, indicates more important problems in Turkey. For some reason, a lot of Turks still seem to support Erdogan. The West doesn't really care what he does, as long as Turkey takes care of most of the refugees. A disgusting European policy.

Because there is now a sufficient majority of Turks who want to destroy the secular Turkey, apply gradually more and more islamic country and get rid of Turkey's within enemies: Secular people and Kurds. Erdogan is just listening to the people like he says, he only additionally wants to destroy and humiliate his personal and political enemies because he is a psycho. Furthermore, he adores money, his family built an m…

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