[liberationtech] Tor, Ultrasurf, HSS, VPNs no longer working in Syria?

[Marcin de Kaminski]

/Marcin
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Från: "Marcin de Kaminski" <marcin.dekaminski at gmail.com>
Datum: 1 dec 2011 17:44
Ämne: Re: [liberationtech] Tor, Ultrasurf, HSS, VPNs no longer working in
Syria?
Till: "Collin Anderson" <collin at averysmallbird.com>
Kopia: "liberationtech" <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>, <
liberationtech at lewman.us>

Yeah, being a part of Telecomix I am most aware of that. The tech crew is
informed about this and are trying to resolve what issues there might be
and possible solutions for this.

Still, new input is always needed and i am most thankful for the
information provided here. :-)

/Marcin
Den 1 dec 2011 17:38 skrev "Collin Anderson" <collin at averysmallbird.com>:

The best source of information on this is likely Telecomix. For a few
> months, they have had a number of contacts in Syria, with whom they've
> struggled to keep online.
>
> From my conversations with members, issues with PPTP/L2TP/IPSEC and,
> more importantly, OpenVPN, arose in September. The last I had asked,
> they were attempting to use Stunnel to mask VPN, but the larger theory
> was that if an SSL connection was made, some system would check to see
> if a valid HTTPS server was on the other side. It's also interesting
> to point out that the Blue Coat logs document a fairly uninterrupted
> stream Tor traffic as of August.
>
> --
> Collin David Anderson
> averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C.
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:06 AM,  <liberationtech at lewman.us> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 10:14:38AM +0100, admin at alkasir.com wrote 2.5K
> bytes in 69 lines about:
> > : I've been in touch with a friend in Syria and he said that none of the
> > : prominent anonymizing tools are working in Syria. Can you verify this
> > : information? I was told all major VPN protocols are also not working,
> > : including PPTP, L2TP, IPSec, SSL. SSH tunnels apparently get
> disconnected
> > : every few minutes by apparent interventions that require the client to
> > : reconnect every so often, making browsing a nightmare.
> >
> > Which connection they are using may matter. So, here come my
> > questions: Which ISP? Has Syria re-enabled ssl interception (aka
> > machine-in-the-middle)? What does a user see? Does the browser warn
> > about fake certs? What does Tor report in its log file?
> >
> > etc, etc, etc.
> >
> > --
> > Andrew
> > pgp key: 0x74ED336B
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