Re:Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use
by rokosbasilisk on Sunday December 18, 2016 @12:22PM
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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
by benevol on Sunday December 18, 2016 @01:11PM
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> I think uncensored internet is under attack in general even in the america and europe
...where the actors are more subtle and use mass surveillance to manipulate people and undermine "dissidents".
Re:Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use
by the8472 on Sunday December 18, 2016 @02:06PM
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The UK is also putting quite a filtering infrastructure in place. To fight terrorism, extremists, porn, filesharing etc.
Re:Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use
by velox_io on Sunday December 18, 2016 @04:23PM
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I read about this too, it sounds like a firewall to me.
Source: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-must-be-given-po...
Re:Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use
by loverofcode on Sunday December 18, 2016 @04:43PM
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?so, does the bridge work the same as an exit?
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 Crypto: https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/isis/torspec.git/plain/pr...