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

[Andrew Lewman]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 04:18:17PM -0500, griffin at cryptolab.net wrote 1.3K bytes in 0 lines about:
: replacement.  This feels like a user education issue.  Users need to
: know that there are multiple options -- eg when Psiphon works but
: Lantern doesn't, or when Tor with a bridge doesn't usually work, but
: with flashproxy does.  People need to be prepared to pivot quickly.

Idle curiosity, what percent of Iranian Internet users use a proxy
(or don't go naked on the Internet)? 1%? 5%? 50%?

I suspect (based on zero data) that awareness these tools exist is
the first problem to solve. Deciding which tool to use is the 26th
problem.

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Andrew
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