[tor-talk] News from Iran

[Collin Anderson]

To be historically accurate, Youtube has been blocked in Iran for at least
three years. Last week, I had compiled a list of open HTTP proxies within
country, and iterating requests for Google, Gmail, and Youtube now,
everything appears to be the way they have been for some time. Somewhat
relatedly, this week, I will be posting a working paper to arXiv on how
Iran has set up a hidden Internet using RFC 10/8 IP addresses.


On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 6:36 PM, SiNA Rabbani <sina at redteam.io> wrote:

> Finally after years of waiting we will get to see what a so called
> "Halal Internet" looks like. So far they have completed "Phase One"
> which is to disconnect all the governmental entities from Gmail and
> other foreign services.
>
> Next phase is to do the same with the entire population of Iran. It is
> hard for me to imagine the Internet getting completely shutdown. I
> suspect they will make SSL traffic very slow to a point that users would
> give up and look for other alternatives....
>
> Today, Iran started to block Gmail at different ISP and cities all over
> Iran. The head of the unit that is in charge of blocking said that
>
> "Because of the release of an anti-islam videos about prophet Muhammad
> on Youtube, which is owned by Google, *The People* have asked for these
> sites to be blocked! So we have decided to Block Google and Gmail
> service until further notice."
>
> --SiNA
>
> On 09/23/2012 03:19 PM, HardKor wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just read in an online newspaper that Iran will block Google (and
> > Youtube) very soon. The article also say that the whole network will be
> > disconnected from the internet soon.
> >
> > Does any one have more detailed informations about what's going on over
> > threre ?
> >
> > HardKor
> >
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