Yeah... Russians are known for their ability to reverse engineer and circumvent protections of all sorts... For good and bad...
I'm pretty sure it won't take long before there are easy ways to circumvent whatever VPN blocking Putin invests in...
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Yeah... Russians are known for their ability to reverse engineer and circumvent protections of all sorts... For good and bad...
I'm pretty sure it won't take long before there are easy ways to circumvent whatever VPN blocking Putin invests in...
Russia is already actively blocking VPNs both by restricting access to the servers and by blocking the UDP ports used by the VPNs. There is no solution except to choose the ports that are untouched yet or by using a VPS as a proxy. Going the TCP route cripples the maximum speed, so the ban is effective in forcing Russians to give up and connect directly.
Some VPNs use ports 443 or 80 which won't be blocked. There's also some which disguise the traffic to appear as HTTPS. It's a cat and mouse game but I don't see the cat winning.
Russia already has national root TLS certificate that's must installed on all devices (basically government-mandated MITM). The next step is to start severely throttling (and optionally blocking) TLS connections that don't use it. Some popular foreign sites like Google can remain functional by replacing their certificate at ISP level (all ISPs are already controlled by the government).
"the register of prohibited information",...
That just sounds to me like Russia has some powerful locked-up black magic.
Some. Putin won't fuck with the Pope though. You know why you never hear about Putin threatening to de-nazify Vatican city? That's right, the Secret Archives.
They'll be coming for RuPaul next
How this will impact piracy?