Russia Prepares RuStore VPN Ban After Declaring RuStore Installation Mandatory * TorrentFreak
torrentfreak.comAfter launching its own app store to free Russia from Google & Apple, a draft law seeks to outlaw censorship-circumventing VPNs on RuStore.
You must log in or register to comment.
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
- 0 users online
- 57 users / day
- 383 users / week
- 1.5K users / month
- 5.7K users / 6 months
- 1 subscriber
- 3.12K Posts
- 78K Comments
- Modlog
Russia is already actively blocking VPNs both by restricting access to the servers and by blocking the UDP ports used by the VPNs. There is no solution except to choose the ports that are untouched yet or by using a VPS as a proxy. Going the TCP route cripples the maximum speed, so the ban is effective in forcing Russians to give up and connect directly.
Some VPNs use ports 443 or 80 which won’t be blocked. There’s also some which disguise the traffic to appear as HTTPS. It’s a cat and mouse game but I don’t see the cat winning.
Russia already has national root TLS certificate that’s must installed on all devices (basically government-mandated MITM). The next step is to start severely throttling (and optionally blocking) TLS connections that don’t use it. Some popular foreign sites like Google can remain functional by replacing their certificate at ISP level (all ISPs are already controlled by the government).
bruh what are you talking about, there are indeed national root certs but that’s purely for Sberbank and similar government sites, I wouldn’t put it past them to go further but we’re a loooooong way off
It’s the kind of game where nobody wins.