[tor-talk] Ars Technica on Iran's latest strategy

Andrew Lewman andrew at torproject.org
Fri Feb 10 18:00:27 UTC 2012


On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:18:41 +0000
Robert Ransom <rransom.8774 at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://bugs.torproject.org/4927 seems to have been effective.  We
> just need to hunt down and fix some obfsproxy (server-side) crash bugs
> and get a good list of very-high-bandwidth obfsproxy bridges before we
> tell everyone where to find a Tor+obfsproxy client bundle.

Additionally, the reality in Iran isn't quite so cut and dry,
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/iran-partially-blocks-encrypted-network-traffic
for some details. The blocking is not nationwide, nor even ISP wide. 

Still working on more details. It seems only people connected to
AS12880 are being routed through a proxy doing more filtering. Granted,
this AS12880 seems to cover most of Tehran.

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