[liberationtech] Many VPNs and Psiphon are currently blocked in Iran right now

[Nariman Gharib]

Ok, I think I should explain more about this question and just Collin told
me the answered which I looking for that.

1st the reason I didn't add Tor to the list , because I knew that already
Tor is safe, BUT it isn't use widely in Iran, as Amin said, one of the
problem is Internet Speed.

Today I asked my friend who works at Manoto Tv which is a popular satellite
tv for Iranian based London, to they asked their audience on Facebook to
test Tor... here the result ( in persian you can use google translate )
https://www.facebook.com/manototv/photos/a.373466005978.201927.211358470978/10152223429605979/?type=1&stream_ref=10

MANY OF THEM COULD NOT OPEN EVEN THE URL NOT FROM PC NOT FROM MOBILE.

nowadays I suggestion people Lantern over my twitter @listentous and
Facebook page and probably this week from TV.

google play is blocked in Iran and people downloading these software from
dropbox, some file sharing and it's bad.

we should definitely understand that, people just want to access the free
internet, my mother doesn't care about the security or privacy BUT we can't
not telling them how dangerous this software or app. they should know that
the chance of leak their data on the internet or with Iranian cyber army
who ran lots of vpn servers inside country and selling vpn to people.

Thanks
Nariman


On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Collin Anderson
<collin at averysmallbird.com>wrote:

> Nariman,
>
> None of the tools are safe, since the users in question are finding
> servers and credentials through word of mouth and on public sites without
> attribution for where their data is going. Even if the other side is not
> malicious, I've seen a fair amount of those vendors require or encourage
> encryption to be disabled to connect, and instruct them on how to turn it
> off.
>
> Clearly, the issue for them is access rather than security, so at best,
> you could suggest to them that a commercial Western service would be less
> susceptible Iranian state coercion than someone like ParsaVPN. However,
> there should not be any illusion that they safe.
>
> Cordially,
> Collin
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Nariman Gharib <nariman.gh at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My name is Nariman Gharib. I'm a researcher in Iran Tech and social media
>> based London.
>>
>> I'm helping Iranian people to bypass the censorship by teaching them and
>> telling them which tools are safe and works for bypass the censorship.(It's
>> hard)
>>
>> 4 days ago Iranian Government blocked Psiphon in Iran. most of Psiphon
>> users inside Iran are using this tool on their android phones, according to
>> my source inside Iran, we have more than 6million android users.
>>
>> by the way, these days people are found and using new tools and this is
>> worried me, because they just want to bypass the filtering and most of them
>> didn't care about privacy and security.
>>
>> so if anybody can help me to tell me which these tools in below are safe
>> it would be great.
>>
>> 1- AnyConnect ICS+ Cisco Systems, Inc.
>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cisco.anyconnect.vpn.android.avf&hl=en
>> 2- Any connect
>> http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/security/anyconnect-vpn-client/tsd-products-support-series-home.html
>> 3- fqrouter2
>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fq.router2&hl=en
>> 4- https://www.sumrando.com/
>> 5- shadowsocks
>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.shadowsocks
>> 6- kerio
>> 7- Hola
>> 8- socks(https)
>>
>> Thanks everyone.
>>
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