Russia Prepares RuStore VPN Ban After Declaring RuStore Installation Mandatory
Russia Prepares RuStore VPN Ban After Declaring RuStore Installation Mandatory
After launching its own app store to free Russia from Google & Apple, a draft law seeks to outlaw censorship-circumventing VPNs on RuStore.
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.
"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.
This is the third post talking about this ban and it got me thinking.
Would it be possible to hide the VPN traffic in HTTPS traffic? Something like HTTPS bridges for Tor, but instead of Tor traffic going through the bridge, it would be VPN traffic?