alt Hacker NewsIran is blocking internet for months, US ...bans creation of secure connections - that'll show 'em!
Russian quasi-government structures are spending quadrillion of rubles on a TSPU (censorship system) to spy on Russian residents, US ...helps them by making snooping on what is currently encrypted traffic possible by banning accessible encryption!
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[Iranian here] Completely agreed. Reminds me of how US banned citizens and businesses in Iran from using cloud infrastructure like AWS or digital ocean, leading to people and businesses moving to the government-sponsored local cloud services, and that made it super easy for the government to block internet access whenever they want without essential services like banking, ecommerce, online taxi booking, food delivery etc being disrupted.
TSPU isn't for spying, it's for censorship enforcement and everything else that makes the experience of using the internet here miserable without a VPN. It's SORM that's for spying. And Roskomnadzor is very much part of the government.
wait until you find out about Facebook!
Let's Encrypt certificates continue to be available in both Iran and Russia, just not for the Iranian and Russian governments.
The terms of service update to clarify what we have always done, comply with relevant law, has not changed the situation for either country.