Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level

Re:Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, Op... by Bluecobra on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:45AM (#37074873)

If everyone does this wouldn’t that encourage them to try to do carrier grade SSL decryption? I seem to recall that some country is already doing this and to get online you need to trust the state’s CA.

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Re:Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, Op... by 8organicbits on Thursday August 10, 2023 @08:08AM (#37075142)

Kazakhstan? That attempt failed. I recently cataloged similar concerns[1].

[1] https://alexsci.com/blog/ca-trust/

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Re:Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, Op... by TheRoque on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:53AM (#37074972)

I would be interested to know which country this is

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Re:Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, Op... by johnbatch on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:58AM (#37075034)

Here’s an article about Kazakhstan:

https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/threat-intelligence/kazakhs...

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Re:Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, Op... by nirui on Thursday August 10, 2023 @09:17AM (#37075777)

Well, a long time back, there are proxies such as fqrouter, GoAgent and XX-NET which sends plain but loaded HTTP requests as transport. So I guess if a country decides to ban/decrypt TLS, people can just switch to another proxy/protocol.

Of course, both fqrouter and GoAgent is long gone by now and should not be used. However, it seems that XX-Net is still been actively developed and (according to their project page on GitHub) is currently give out one million free ChatGPT-3.5 tokens for it's paying user...(I mean like... what??? and why???)

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