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We are not the good guys in iran
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It’s 100% to prevent citizens from becoming organized. The regime is most fearful of this.
which is the exact same reason China bans Starlink.
Chinese government don't care about small percent of population accessing open internet.
For those who don't keep track of backbone ISP topologies: Iran has 3 or 4 major entirely government controlled ASNs which all domestic ISPs are obligated to be downstream of.
The government controlled AS run all the international transit connections (at the BGP level) and also the physical fiber/longhaul DWDM systems into a few neighboring countries. It makes it very easy to cut off all the downstream domestic only ISPs.
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Should internet and outside access be cut for people of Gaza and Lebanon too? Aren’t they targeted by Israel as well?
If they could credibly threaten your infrastructure then it makes sense. If they have no real organized hacking capabilities then no. But the US has already attacked Iran through computers before with Stuxnet and is the world leader in software and networking knowledge so it does make perfect sense for Iran to disconnect its networks from outside. You might also have to consider the propaganda campaigns the US could…
> consider the propaganda campaigns the US could run against an Iranian population with web access.
I’m amazed at people who have access to freely express their opinions online, prescribe that 90m people should not have the right to freely access information because they somehow can’t be trusted to not fall for propaganda. What a patronizing and self righteous take.
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which is the exact same reason China bans Starlink.
I wonder why BYD is banned in the US. Are we afraid they'll be used to transport people to gatherings?
US is able to produce cars on its soil and there is no reason to give up this industry to foreign country.
It's pretty sane policy.
On other news, Iran is banning IPv6, UDP, DNS, ICMP to tighten the blackout https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/permanent-ban-ipv6-forced-nat...
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It's not an Arab country at all . Iranians are Persian, not Arab. Iran is low-key at war with most of the gulf Arab states.
Not sure why he is being called for this (or maybe he edited his comment?) but I re-read it a couple times and he is not saying Iran is an Arab country but comparing to the other Arab countries.
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There's multiple motives, not just counter-organization. A media blackout prevents OSINT damage analysis, much like how the IDF and CENTCOM both censor reporting of attacks on their in-theater installations.
They could easily just censor that, especially since a dictatorship has far more control over the media compared to democracies.
On other news, Iran is banning IPv6, UDP, DNS, ICMP to tighten the blackout https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/permanent-ban-ipv6-forced-nat...
A few weeks ago a very clever way to bypass the SNI whitelist was introduced [1] (SNI spoofing for cloudflare!) but it was subsequently blocked. Some claim that at this moment all outbound TCP connections are terminated inside the firewall / ISPs and therefore methods like [1] based on injecting fake or problematic TCP packets no longer work. It seems like even SYN-free TCP connections (again, breaking protocol) are no longer accessible.