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Encrypted Email Service ProtonMail is Being Blocked in Turkey (protonmail.com)
ProtonMail: We have confirmed that Internet service providers in Turkey have been blocking ProtonMail this week. Our support team first became aware of connectivity problems for Turkish ProtonMail users starting on Tuesday. After further investigation, we determined that protonmail.com was unreachable for both Vodafone Turkey mobile and fixed line users. Since then, we have also received some sporadic reports from users of other Turkish ISPs. At one point, the issue was prevalent in every single major city in Turkey. After investigating the issue along with members of the ProtonMail community in Turkey, we have confirmed this is a government-ordered block rather than a technical glitch. Internet censorship in Turkey tends to be fluid so the situation is constantly evolving. Sometimes ProtonMail is accessible, and sometimes it is unreachable. For the first time ever though, we have confirmed that ProtonMail was subject to a block, and could face further issues in the future. In the post, ProtonMail has also outlined ways to bypass the block.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
It is a disgrace that private companies from Western countries make money on human rights abuses.
Humanity will never forget what IBM did in WW2. IBM got away with it, but their name will forever be shamed. Vodafone, do you really want the same fate?
Finally! A year of moderation! Ready for 2019?
$ ping protonmail.com
PING protonmail.com (185.70.40.182) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 185-70-40-182.protonmail.ch (185.70.40.182): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=138 ms
served on a GoDaddy server
~$ whois protonmail.com ...
Domain Name: PROTONMAIL.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1612103273_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com/
Updated Date: 2016-08-10T23:37:51Z
Creation Date: 2010-08-21T09:10:58Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2019-08-21T09:10:58Z
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 146
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@godaddy.com
Name Server: NS1.PROTONMAIL.CH
Name Server: NS2.PROTONMAIL.CH
~$ ping protonmail.ch
PING protonmail.ch (185.70.40.181) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 185-70-40-181.protonmail.ch (185.70.40.181): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=125 ms
So, protonmail.com is at 185.70.40.182 and protonmail.ch is at 185.70.40.181
Interestingly, when I attempt to "whois" protonmail.ch I get:
~$ whois protonmail.ch
"The number of requests per client per time interval is restricted. You have exceeded this limit. Please wait a moment and try again."
I can whois any other site repeatedly without problems of a "per client per time" limit. Whois is being less than open about its results.
In /etc/hosts place
185.70.40.182 protonmail.com
185.70.40.181 protonmail.ch
and bypass DNS blocking.
Running with Linux for over 20 years!
Unfortunately, it looks like this one is for people who either don't know what they're doing, or for people who can't be bothered. It appears to be Yet Another one of those encrypt in the web browser webmail services, where the user is always hoping that they're getting the same, trustworthy client-side script from the server each time, never modified to leak keys. i.e. it's as vulnerable to attack as Lavabit was.
Anyone wanna set me straight on this? Because it looks like it's just another scam -- well, ok, perhaps well-meaning, so let's call it a folly, not a scam. Except in 2018 I don't think being that dumb is realistic, so I think I'll go back to the word "scam."
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Corrupt and evil leader trying to hang onto power by suppressing all dissent. Because even Erdogan knows he is evil and what he would do if he were subject to such a nasty leader himself. It's all about what a shrink would call "projection". Never ends well, whether it's this guy, or say, Nancy Pelosi not wanting me to have a gun because she does evil things with B52's and boots on the ground....
Why guess when you can know? Measure!
There's Erdogan, Putin, Assad, Duterte and now Xi, all members of the International Tyrants Club. Trump is a wannabe member but the others all laugh at him behind his back.