Iran cuts off access to popular Web sites

[Jack]

Following in the footsteps of the former governments of Egypt and Libya, Iran is cutting its people off from the Internet.

CNET’s Charles Cooper is reporting that Iran is cutting its citizens off from many major Web services and sites. You’d think authoritative governments would learn from the lessons of the Arab Spring. Egypt, Libya, and Syria all turned off the Internet. Egypt and Libya now have new governments and Syria is fighting a civil war. Cutting off the people off from the Internet is clearly such a smart move.

Unlike Egypt, Libya, and Syria, though Iran hasn’t simply turned off external Internet access. Instead, the Iranian government appears to be blocking access to popular, external e-mails services such as Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo. In addition access to at least one major social network, Facebook, seems to have been cut.

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[Ayanami]

Maybe they need Tor or VPN .

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/02/10/as-iran-cracks-down-online-tor-tests-undetectable-encrypted-connections/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3575029

 

[Valentin N]

This is one way to control and maybe "backwash" people with wrong ideas. This is very sad to see. I wonder why even learn history.... for making the same mistakes and make history go in loop once again.

 

[Valentin N]

Maybe they need Tor or VPN .

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/02/10/as-iran-cracks-down-online-tor-tests-undetectable-encrypted-connections/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3575029

Good suggestion but how many know of such tool? Not many...

 

[Gnosis]

It can't be worse than North Korea's regime, can it?

Iran is ripe for revolution, and has been for a long time. There are a lot of good people in Iran. Maybe now they will stand up as one and fertilize the Tree of Liberty.

The worst thing about it is that due to the irresponsible leadership in Iran, the next intentional communications glitch could be EMP induced.

 

[Prorootect]

Maybe they need Tor or VPN .

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/02/10/as-iran-cracks-down-online-tor-tests-undetectable-encrypted-connections/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3575029

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.. And ZOU, I'm with you, but you forgot censorship manners on China, Vietnam, Laos .. sad sad, poor peoples.

 

[Gnosis]

And ZOU, I'm with you, but you forgot censorship manners on China, Vietnam, Laos .. sad sad, poor peoples.

Very true. Sinister oligarchies make their citizens look like villains when most of their civilians (subservients or slaves) are actually respectable people. It is bad enough that the mass majorities have a false image cast over them by their tyrants. Ultimately, the majority of citizens still have to deal with the tyranny and oppression. It is especially tough when they have to endure that environment while taking care of a family; sad indeed.

 

[Hungry Man]

They've actually just blocked SSL entirely by breaking the handshakes - this subsequently blocks any "always-https" sites like GMail.

 

[woomera]

first, this is no new they have blocked many websites in here but as "Hungry Man" said what they did few days ago was blocking https and also any encrypted connection inc vpn's.
just so you guys get the picture on how big this is (filtering+https blocking+encryption disabled) i can only browse 20% of the web, maybe less specially since 1-2 years ago when many websites moved their connections and authentications to https for security measures.

since this morning they opened up https but vpn's are still operating at very low speed so basically their useless. seems they will stop this in 2 days since there is a talk of protest tomorrow at the capital and thats the main reason for all these ban's, they dont want people to communicate with each other through the web.

my google ping currently sits at 741ms, im not sure if i should laugh about this or just feel sad -.-

 

[Prorootect]

Exactly - 'they dont want people to communicate with each other through the web.'

We know this, of course.

 

[Jack]

since this morning they opened up https but vpn's are still operating at very low speed so basically their useless. seems they will stop this in 2 days since there is a talk of protest tomorrow at the capital and thats the main reason for all these ban's, they dont want people to communicate with each other through the web.

Agree,the Internet is a good way for the masses to organize, and they know that the only way they'll be removed from Iran's leadership is through massive protests ( in fact violent protest ,as this guys will NEVER go away if not forced).Sadly ,their is also the need for International support behind your move as I'm sure they will not hesitate killing a few thousandth people (if not more , eg: Siria) to prevent the Iran citizens from talking back their freedom.
With no doubt the Internet is the main expression of freedom and any attempt to censorship from Iran or any other country should not be tolerated!

PS : Image of Google Chrome vs Iran broken https -https://twitter.com/#!/ListenToUs/status/167572220384784384/photo/1

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[woomera]

the internet activity is back up working fine since noon but it seems like in the capital there were protests going on tonight and some might even be dead but we wont know till tomorrow from abroad persian tv channels.
here since afternoon all major streets were filled with military and police forces to prevent any protest from forming, that just shows how scared they are from loosing the power and thats a start.

imo they wont last until the end of 2012 unless they change their ways or be stupid enough to try to stop strait of hormooz and then start a war.

 

[Ramblin]

Good luck woomera, I think freedom is close by, hope you guys can grab it as others in the Muslim World have as of lately. It will be a real pleasure for me to see Ajad and the "real power" in Iran go, since Ajad and my own country's renegade dictator/Ortega belong to the same club of illegitimate de facto governments.

Bo

 

[jamescv7]

Its just only a sign that internet may be less reliable due to cut off or censorships.