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Russia Blocks 167 VPNs, Steps Up OpenVPN and WireGuard Disruption (torrentfreak.com)
18 points by iscream26 7 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



"Providing advice on the use of VPNs or similar tools to access banned internet resources, including ‘extremist’ Western social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, was rendered a criminal offense."

Crazy


and to think, before covid fell i joked i wanted to take the train from moscow to beijing then hang out in vietnam because they let you shitpost about china...

how quickly geopolitics can change -- head of the troll factory shot out of the sky, and the foundations of geopolitics embedded in dugina's skull.


> In addition to driving out non-compliant VPN providers and using regular means to block domains and IP addresses

How do they get the point-of-presence VPN IPs? Does Russia go to the OpenVPN/Wireguard page of VPN services and download each country config file and build a naughty list of VPN IPs?


Most likely


I wonder whether WireGuard's operation at the packet layer makes this easier. Probably.


For wireguard they usually intercept handshake packets. There's no significant differences from tcp-based VPN protocols in this regard.




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