[tor-talk] Tor banned in Pakistan.

Ted Smith tedks at riseup.net
Sat Sep 10 22:30:44 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 22:08 +0100, Matthew wrote:
> >> It would be good to know what technologies these ISPs will implement to
> >> do the packet inspection for encrypted tunnels.  Half the problem is you
> >> don't really know what they'll be looking for and so you don't know how
> >> to circumvent.
> >>
> Forgive my ignorance but why would there be any need to inspect packets for 
> tunnels?  Would the authorities not just ask every ISP to monitor the IPs 
> to which their clients are connecting and if they are Tor nodes then the 
> client must be reported.  AIUI all the ISP can see is that a connection is 
> made to the first Tor node.
> 
More than Tor has been banned, so that wouldn't catch all illegal
behavior, just a very small subset of it.
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