[liberationtech] Important Iranian Filternet Changes

2013-05-05 Thread Collin Anderson
Readers of Libtech may be interested in the changes to the filtering regime that were imposed a few hours ago. Currently traffic streams, at least unknown streams if not all, are being dropped after exactly sixty seconds, terminating the connection. It appears this is based on protocol rather than

[liberationtech] NotInMyCountry.org Site Fights University Corruption Expands to Kenya

2013-05-05 Thread Vasili Arkhipov
For those that are not aware, https://notinmycountry.org/ is a website that allows university students in Uganda and now Kenya to hold their lecturers accountable by rating their performance and reporting them for incidents of corruption. A few articles have now come out about

Re: [liberationtech] Important Iranian Filternet Changes

2013-05-05 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
I just wanted to say thank you to Collin for this very informative and interesting stuff. There's a lot more being posted on his Twitter feed for those who care. NK On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Griffin Boyce griffinbo...@gmail.comwrote: Do you think it's practical for circumvention tools

Re: [liberationtech] Important Iranian Filternet Changes

2013-05-05 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 5/5/13 12:57 PM, Collin Anderson wrote: Readers of Libtech may be interested in the changes to the filtering regime that were imposed a few hours ago. Currently traffic streams, at least unknown streams if not all, are being dropped after exactly sixty seconds, terminating the connection.

Re: [liberationtech] Important Iranian Filternet Changes

2013-05-05 Thread Collin Anderson
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) li...@infosecurity.ch wrote: What's about unknown UDP-based protocol (that are stateless, so not subject to TCP reset) ? Just to clarify, the disruption is inline dropping of traffic and not TCP reset; also, UDP transfer with netcat