Encrypted Email Service ProtonMail is Being Blocked in Turkey (protonmail.com) 35
ProtonMail: We have confirmed that Internet service providers in Turkey have been blocking ProtonMail this week. Our support team first became aware of connectivity problems for Turkish ProtonMail users starting on Tuesday. After further investigation, we determined that protonmail.com was unreachable for both Vodafone Turkey mobile and fixed line users. Since then, we have also received some sporadic reports from users of other Turkish ISPs. At one point, the issue was prevalent in every single major city in Turkey. After investigating the issue along with members of the ProtonMail community in Turkey, we have confirmed this is a government-ordered block rather than a technical glitch. Internet censorship in Turkey tends to be fluid so the situation is constantly evolving. Sometimes ProtonMail is accessible, and sometimes it is unreachable. For the first time ever though, we have confirmed that ProtonMail was subject to a block, and could face further issues in the future. In the post, ProtonMail has also outlined ways to bypass the block.
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IIRC the last time they did this it was at the DNS level. There was all kinds of photos with graffiti spray painted on buildings explaining how to change your servers to 8.8.8.8
Re: whatever non news (Score:2)
There's Erdogan, Putin, Assad, Duterte and now Xi, all members of the International Tyrants Club. Trump is a wannabe member but the others all laugh at him behind his back.
outlined ways to bypass the block. (Score:1)
Now THIS is the way to handle (and report on) the problem! I hope ProtonMail is a sincere fighter for the cause. A concerted, united effort by everybody else will help to make censorship a thing of the past. Still have to free ourselves of the ISP ball and chain (and the tyranny of the conservative majority) to make it really work.
Oddly ... (Score:4, Funny)
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Nice. I got a charge out of your joke.
Shame on Vodafone (Score:4, Insightful)
It is a disgrace that private companies from Western countries make money on human rights abuses.
Humanity will never forget what IBM did in WW2. IBM got away with it, but their name will forever be shamed. Vodafone, do you really want the same fate?
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Oh please. Ask any millenial what he thinks about what IBM did in WW2, and all you'll get is the deer-in-headlights blank stare.
The generation that never knew war will be the one starting the next one, The generation that never knew the horrors of polio and smallpox are today's anti-vaxers. The generation that never knew tyrany are the ones freely and democratically voting for monsters like Erdogan.
People forget. The errors of the past are documented ad-nauseam in multiple films, photos, plays, philosophica
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A species capable of recording its culture and history more than any other species on earth, and yet incapable of not continuously repeating the same mistakes from one generation to the next is a textbook example of an evolutionary dead-end.
I would like to see that textbook.
Also, a lot of what IBM did in WW2 was only made public knowledge this century. Millenials have every chance of being educated on the issue.
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It is a disgrace that private companies from Western countries make money on human rights abuses.
Humanity will never forget what IBM did in WW2. IBM got away with it, but their name will forever be shamed. Vodafone, do you really want the same fate?
Why was IBM allowed to export equipment to Germany? It’s not like export controls are a recent invention. There were Nazi groups in the US, in the wide open at one point. You’re compressing a whole lot of history into that rear view mirror of yours, just bear that in mind. The German company that made small arms to heavy artillery, even Big Bertha, they maintain our elevators now. So yah... humanity forgets, but I’m not sure what we’d gain by remembering everything. 100 year ol
protonmail.com is actually protonmail.ch (Score:5, Interesting)
$ ping protonmail.com
PING protonmail.com (185.70.40.182) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 185-70-40-182.protonmail.ch (185.70.40.182): icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=138 ms
served on a GoDaddy server
~$ whois protonmail.com ...
Domain Name: PROTONMAIL.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1612103273_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com/ [godaddy.com]
Updated Date: 2016-08-10T23:37:51Z
Creation Date: 2010-08-21T09:10:58Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2019-08-21T09:10:58Z
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 146
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@godaddy.com
Name Server: NS1.PROTONMAIL.CH
Name Server: NS2.PROTONMAIL.CH
~$ ping protonmail.ch
PING protonmail.ch (185.70.40.181) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 185-70-40-181.protonmail.ch (185.70.40.181): icmp_seq=1 ttl=44 time=125 ms
So, protonmail.com is at 185.70.40.182 and protonmail.ch is at 185.70.40.181
Interestingly, when I attempt to "whois" protonmail.ch I get:
~$ whois protonmail.ch
"The number of requests per client per time interval is restricted. You have exceeded this limit. Please wait a moment and try again."
I can whois any other site repeatedly without problems of a "per client per time" limit. Whois is being less than open about its results.
In /etc/hosts place
185.70.40.182 protonmail.com
185.70.40.181 protonmail.ch
and bypass DNS blocking.
PGP? Regular E-mail? Usenet? (Score:2)
Everything is an encrypted communication service if you know what you're doing.
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Unfortunately, it looks like this one is for people who either don't know what they're doing, or for people who can't be bothered. It appears to be Yet Another one of those encrypt in the web browser [wikipedia.org] webmail services, where the user is always hoping that they're getting the same, trustworthy client-side script from the server each time, never modified to leak keys. i.e. it's as vulnerable to attack as Lavabit was.
Anyone wanna set me straight on this? Because it looks like it's just another scam -- well, ok,
The usual (Score:3, Insightful)