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

[Collin Anderson]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Nathan of Guardian <
nathan at guardianproject.info> wrote:

> I just hope that the "Tor is slow" meme, along with
> other famous ones like "PGP is hard" and "No one cares about privacy",
> are continued to be challenged, tested and not accepted as inevitable.
>


Certainly, however, I am testing this meme now, and it has validity. I,
right now, pulled the latest version of Tor to a Linux machine in Iran and
did a comparative measurement of throughput with and without. Although the
download started out reasonably fast, after a few seconds it seems probably
that my connection was throttled down. Whereas without Tor, my throughput
averaged 84.81 Kbps, with it is currently 14.66 Kbps and rapidly dropping.
If anyone doubts that Tor's overhead is that high, at some point I could
keep tearing down connections and narrow the likelihood of a poorly
performing bridge. However, factually, Tor is slow.

-- 
*Collin David Anderson*
averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C.
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