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Re:Google disables “domain fronting” capability used to evad... by kome on Friday April 20, 2018 @03:48AM (#16882912)
Others were "indiscriminately blocked years ago"? Do you have a source for that?

As far I know - but I might be wrong - Google, Facebook, Instagram or Whatsapp have never been blocked in Russia.

Re:Google disables “domain fronting” capability used to evad... by baybal2 on Friday April 20, 2018 @03:58AM (#16882954)
BBM public server was certainly blocked as early as 5 years ago.

Blackphone servers at around 4 or 3 years ago as well, just few months after its market release (while signal is still available though)

All modded GSM phones were under blanket ban for even longer. Modded GSM phone vendors are routinely raided.

Then Line, KaoKao and gazillion of others.

There is no doubt that they were very deliberate in targeting anything with hard crypto.

FB, and Google are routinely complying with Russians, so no wonder about them still being there.

Re:Google disables “domain fronting” capability used to evad... by Lionsion on Friday April 20, 2018 @11:25AM (#16885524)
> modded GSM phones

What do you mean by this? I'm genuinely curious. "modded GSM phones" yields zero hits on Google for me.

Re:Google disables “domain fronting” capability used to evad... by baybal2 on Saturday April 21, 2018 @03:18AM (#16890361)
Stuff like TopSec S35 or Security AG. Some are garage made. All of them basically put a block cypher in between the GSM codec chip and the modem. Such stuff was relatively easy to do on old dumbphones
Re:Google disables “domain fronting” capability used to evad... by acct1771 on Monday April 23, 2018 @12:42AM (#16900566)
Are there any modern incarnations?
Re:Google disables “domain fronting” capability used to evad... by kome on Friday April 20, 2018 @04:03AM (#16882978)
Thanks! It's even more suspicious why Google and Facebook products still works then... And they have never been blocked.