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A comment on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by rafram on Thursday August 28, 2025 @06:40PM (#45057848)
> your government can decide to block unknown protocols

Has any government ever done that? Seems like it would just break everything (because the world is full of devices that use custom protocols!) at great computational expense.

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Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by thenthenthen on Thursday August 28, 2025 @10:33PM (#45059427)
China blocked https last week: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/ch...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44958621

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Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by rafram on Thursday August 28, 2025 @11:57PM (#45060001)
They blanket blocked connections to port 443 for an hour. There was no protocol sniffing.
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Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. ... by ivanstepanovftw on Friday August 29, 2025 @04:10PM (#45068837)
Russia tested this in production by blocking Shadowsocks https://habr.com/ru/news/770840/
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