Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

Post by kgeist » Sat, Jan 20, 2024, 3:44 PM UTC

8organicbits wrote: post #41

someotherperson wrote: post #16

Unfortunately, thanks to the Great Firewall of China, there has been a lot of resources put in to fingerprint VPNs and block them by state actors. Fortunately, however, there is equally years of some of the smartest minds on the planet working to bypass Chinese censorship, so there are some great OpenVPN alternatives. I really encourage you to look into something like Shadowsocks which Chinese people have found great…

What's the current legal risk of using a VPN in China or Russia these days? I found a couple articles about people getting charged, but none I know to be reputable or particularly well written.

Post by b112 » Sat, Jan 20, 2024, 3:47 PM UTC

apfsx wrote: post #44

yellow_lead wrote: post #28

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Can anyone confirm Shadowsocks works anymore? When I tried to use it a few years ago, it got blocked in a few days. To be honest, I think they are blocking anything that exchanges a lot of data with oversesas IPs, after hitting a certain threshold.

Shadowsocks and ShadowsocksR don’t work anymore in my experience in China or Iran. V2ray does which is the successor to those.

Post by b112 » Sat, Jan 20, 2024, 3:51 PM UTC

Covzire wrote: post #25

dr_pardee wrote: post #12

Ten years ago, I was working for a US post-production company that produced a one-off game show in China. We used OpenVPN to monitor our servers, but it was being blocked. I ended up setting up a new OpenVPN server using obfsproxy, and it worked. It might be worth trying in your situation: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/TrafficObfuscatio...

It should be an OS-level implemented feature at the TCP/IP layer so all non-local traffic is unrecognizable to anyone but the true recipient. IDS/IPS's are virtually worthless these days anyway so I can't see much downside if every Window's, Mac's and Linux OS's network traffic appeared to be completely random/obfuscated out-of-box.

Post by rcatcher » Sat, Jan 20, 2024, 3:52 PM UTC

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Post by libertine » Sat, Jan 20, 2024, 3:53 PM UTC

arcbyte wrote: post #34

3kjj23iiinn wrote: post #30

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Great example of how Russian propaganda works. To western readers it reads like sarcasm because we acknowledge the truth contained in it. There are tons of addiction problems we are sorting through with these services. But western readers also see clearly the draconian overtones of tyranny in this sort of approach. Hence it reads like sarcasm. To russian and other readers living in dictatorships, this sort of thing h…