Iran increasingly controls its Internet [Update 6]

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:20:00 +0000

Washington Post wrote:

TEHRAN — Whenever an Iranian blogger, connects to the Internet from his office, they switches on a special connection that for years would bypass the Islamic republic’s increasingly effective firewall.

But recently the software, which allowed them to go online through portals elsewhere in the world, stopped working. When it sporadically returns, speeds are so excruciatingly slow that sites such as Facebook become unusable.

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Iranian block on Tor traffic quickly foiled

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:58:00 +0000

The H-Security: The online privacy and security service Tor was blocked by the Iranian government late evening (local time) 13 September. This was done by adding a filter rule to the Iranian border routers which identified Tor traffic and blocked it. The blocking was quickly discovered by Tor and the project released a fix a few hours later. The fix consists of a new version of the Tor software, Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha, and once this is installed on relays and bridges, the company expects normal service to be resumed for users in Iran.

Censorship on Omid Farhang

Iran increasingly controls its Internet [Update 6]

Iranian block on Tor traffic quickly foiled