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Russia Admits To Blocking Millions of IP Addresses (sfgate.com)
It turns out, the Russian government, in its quest to block Telegram, accidentally shut down several other services as well. From a report: The chief of the Russian communications watchdog acknowledged Wednesday that millions of unrelated IP addresses have been frozen in a so-far futile attempt to block a popular messaging app. Telegram, the messaging app that was ordered to be blocked last week, was still available to users in Russia despite authorities' frantic attempts to hit it by blocking other services. The row erupted after Telegram, which was developed by Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov, refused to hand its encryption keys to the intelligence agencies. The Russian government insists it needs them to pre-empt extremist attacks but Telegram dismissed the request as a breach of privacy. Alexander Zharov, chief of the Federal Communications Agency, said in an interview with the Izvestia daily published Wednesday that Russia is blocking 18 networks that are used by Amazon and Google and which host sites that they believe Telegram is using to circumvent the ban.
retards sure are retarded these days
1. Big deal, Mother Russia has the right to...
2. Something something Telegram something something criminals terrorists
3. At least when Russia does it they don't use FISA courts and let independent judges secretly review the evidence before allowing Russia to stop whatever it is, that way it's more honest because there's no due process involved.
4. MAGA.
And why does Slashdot of all places attract so many AIs anyway? You do know this website is as influential today as a World of Warcraft forum? If you'd been doing this in the early 2000s, then it might have made sense, but most people here who aren't Russian bots are just idiots who'll vote the way they do anyway regardless of how many times you bring up Hillary's emails and invent another person she supposedly murdered. (ALSO THE ELECTION WAS A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, it's time to move on.)
In post soviet Russia Telegram stops internet
The timing correlates with a drop in attacks on our servers.
Block away Vlad, block away.
I wonder how they plan to do it, with a tenth of the budget but not a tenth of the wages, and with an population that is mostly aware that their country is shit and does not actually believe the kool-aid and defend "their" country like it's a religion.
Are they solely relying on good old Slav alcoholism to stop theit citizens from acting up?
few montht ago when ukraine blocked some most outrageous russian propaganda sites , russian mass media was telling people that such blocking is âoenot democraticâ and pointless. At the same time they shown on state TV how to circumvent blocking with a use of vpn. :D Well , russian government is so russian, they are doing a job of ruining their country very well..
Shock horror, Putin didn't win the election with 77% of the vote and 67% turnout.
A mock election in which no opponent is allowed to run always gets a very low turnout because there is no purpose in voting, either for the dictator or for the dictators chosen fake opponents. The best people can do is cast a defaced vote, or vote for one of his puppets knowing it is just a protest vote.
So you'd be looking at around 30% turnout as real, the rest as fake ballot papers
i.e. Putin got about 1/3rd of those real votes, the rest are his operatives stuffing the ballots to make up the numbers. That is more in line with his actual popularity when measured in unmonitored voting. Which is why there are no free polls in Russia.
To sustain power, you have to think he is all popular and all powerful, and so he cannot tolerate dissent that breaks that facade. Free speech and discussion cannot be permitted, journalists are murdered, and the press is all like Fox News.
...they don't want foreign entities trying to destroy their society through the internet!
They should have just used APK's host file engine and been done with it. Or at least that is the impression APK tries to give.
I'd be more impressed if Telegram encrypted ALL communications, not as just a user selectable option for mobile users. Hell, it's not even on by default.
I only use the desktop client, and there's no option to turn on encryption.
I'm pretty sure her boat has sailed. She's political toxic waste.
Bernie or some other candidate will be picked, and Trump will be gone, or Pence if Trump plays his cards right.
Signal is already 100% open source and is now widely used by both corporations and governments. The world doesn't need yet another secure messaging app when most people don't use any as it is. Focus on developing things that don't exist, and getting people to use the things that do.
If Russia is blocking Telegram on the grounds that they won't give out encryption keys to the government .... what to think of the fact that Whatsapp isn't blocked?
Music to my ears!
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
We don't need no stinking First Amendment! Vlad knows what we should be permitted to see!
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
With that kind of tactics against extremists, the Russian government *are* extremists. The defense is making more damage than the threat.
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Seriously, Russia: just cut the goddamned cord already, and stay off the Internet, YOU ARE B&
Beyond the fact The Cheeto is too corrupted by Russian money to ever make an unbiased statement on the foreign state, you'ld have to be a fascist-totalitarian asshole to be friends with people like this. A bigly asshole even.
..and maybe not everyone you meet will want to punch you in the face, stupid American.
in the quest to avoid ads....
Why has the Russian government not made Pavel disappear yet? They seem to like poisoning people.
They can get an orangeutan elected president but they can't shut up the 7th most used chat app?
Heads must roll.
The sad truth is that if the USA blocked most non official/commercial Russian and Chinese IP addresses, we would see a big drop on piracy, hacking and political trolling/manipulation.
And why not? they are already doing it with anyone they don't like.
Symmetric communication and open exchange between nations will probably come to be seen as an earned privilege. Those that systematically and officially abuse it should have that privilege removed.
QQ, blocking the signal is harrrrrrd. Ha.
Normally the remarks are "users will still tunnel to it" but it's a good laugh that they're still upright out in the open. And I hope it stays that way, if only as a reminder that decentralization means a resistance to being killed.
Toporno, tovarisch.
This sounds like a great service. How can I get them to add my IP addresses to their blocking list? I'm blocking them on my end right now, but it would simplify my iptables config if they could just be cut off at the source.