28c3: How governments have tried to block Tor

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Jacob Appelbaum, Roger Dingledine: How governments have tried to block Tor

Iran blocked Tor handshakes using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) in January 2011 and September 2011. Bluecoat tested out a Tor handshake filter in Syria in June 2011. China has been harvesting and blocking IP addresses for both public Tor relays and private Tor bridges for years.

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• Jacob Appelbaum
• Roger Dingledine
• governments
• block
• Tor
• Iran
• DPI

[1ConscienceSociale]

The point at the end on the role and responsibility of engineers in our world is critical. We must boycott and act against firms selling DPI hardware, but we also need to engage with each of theses engineers, as human beings, to help them to understand what they are doing. Because after hearing us, they will not be considered as part of responsible but also as accomplice. Dictators are not and will never be engineers to be able to do the work by themselves. Same for directors of DPI firms.

[T4gProd]

This was the most intense techspeech I have ever watched. Was at edge of my seat the whole time. On a lighter note, It really shouldn't be very hard to find bugs from Nokia software....

[1ConscienceSociale]

@MichaelFordish Engineers are not forced, they are under heavy influence (see "Manufacturing Consent" from N.Chomsky) or bribed. In both case, they need to hear from us a different voice. They must not be able to say one day "I didn't know what I was doing to others people".

[MichaelFordish]

@1ConscienceSociale of course not, sometimes I think the world is a giant highscool were jocks force intelligent to work for them.

[aliov85]

I love you guys. You released new version for Iranian. That very good news.

[Tetsuoha]

The Mossad watching you, like Big Brother.

[abram730]

@workingclasssociety Haha.. I was just about to post that... Yes people in the government admit the USA records everything internet and phone and say the only reason they don't know everything is they lack the computing power.

[ironclaw92]

The fuck is on his head?

[CanadaIndieFilm]

There are laws in the US that limit or prohibit technology leaving the country whether it's in the form of hardware, software or me, a US citizen, physically living and working in a foreign country. Technology that has even the remotest possibility of giving a foreign government an advantage or could prevent US surveillance of a foreign government is considered a threat to US security. Not so for selling a foreign government similar technology for the purpose of oppression.

[xander7b]

This video should be on the wiki page on the SOPA blackout day

[TheGagarine]

@kurtilein3 What is really chocking is than they are able to track down the guy using technology from Nokia, Cisco and others...

[workingclasssociety]

i learned so much from this speech