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Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship (english.elpais.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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The multinational has removed dozens of apps, even though the Kremlin’s censorship body did not order the move. These services, half-permitted by the government, enable people in Russia to access social networks and independent media

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do they really block all connections to popular cloud providers? That also blocks a bunch of "innocent" websites and services, doesn't it?

[–] iopq 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They just block the VPN protocol, you need to pretend to be a website

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

VPN over an HTTP proxy then?

Or WireGuard TCP over UDP obfuscation?

[–] iopq 1 points 1 month ago

I don't know if those work, and whether they continue to work against a state adversary. When you find a new workaround, there are ways to detect it

Reality is actually fairly hard to block because the VPN sends a hello to the camouflage website. It uses the connection to the camouflage website to pretend it's sending data from it, when it's actually sending data from the real destination.