Malaysia or Singapore? On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Nathan Freitas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have been in touch with an Orbot user at a university somewhere in a > relatively free country in Asia, who just a week or so ago found that it > no longer worked for him. He was unable to connect to the Tor network > either directly or with bridges, and it seemed like SSL related errors > were occuring. > > He wrote me today saying this: > "Today I had a talk with the head of computer department, he said that > the sonic wall blocking policies are automatically updated and they > can't do anything with that." > > While I do not know who "automatically updated" their firewall rules, it > is interesting that this wasn't a targeted Tor thing by the local admin, > but some wider deployment, perhaps directly from Sonic corporate > themselves. > > On a hunch, I sent him the new Orbot+OBFS bundle to test out, and it > worked like a charm. He was very excited, and has promised to be a loyal > tester. It indeed seems like they were doing a similar SSL/TLS DPI > block/filter as what is happening in Iran. > > Now the timing of all of this, and the similar approach to filtering > made me curious if this could perhaps be related... could some ISP or > national NOC in Iran be running the same product as this university in > Asia? > > Regardless, it seems like the SSL/TLS DPI might become a standard > tactic, and the needs for obfsproxy will be growing rapidly. > > +n > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- *Collin David Anderson* averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
