>Russia Bans 1.8 Million Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Block Telegram archive.li/uRaX1
>The move to ban these IP blocks is a response to Telegram moving some of its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud servers over the weekend. >Roskomnadzor banned the Telegram instant messaging client inside Russia's border on Friday, April 13, after Telegram refused to hand over customers' encryption keys to the FSB, Russia's main intelligence service. >By moving servers to Amazon and Google servers, Telegram was able to skirt the initial ban and provide service to Russian users over the weekend. >Many users ridiculed Roskomnadzor's decision on social media, and for good reasons, as the move to mass-ban so many IP addresses had secondary repercussions, as it also blocked many legitimate web services. Users reported many online games, mobile apps, and cryptocurrency services going dark over the course of the day. >The number of blocked IPs has now reached over 16 million
Didn't hand over the encryption keys so the Russians could snoop on messages. Literally quoted.
Liam Peterson
its not like the FSB can ban the mathematics behind encryption, I find it to be such a stupid decision and really bad PR for the ruski gov.
Oliver Garcia
I wonder if they ended up blocking some of their own gov services.
Asher Diaz
>Russia banning botnet >EU suing botnet >USA bending over in every way for botnet Land of freedom.
William Johnson
They should have hijacked the domain names at ISP level instead, not really hard to circumvent but neither is the current IP ban.
Gabriel Wright
>after Telegram refused to hand over customers' encryption keys to the FSB Does this mean Telegram is safe to use? If american agencies ask them for the keys, will they refuse too?
Grayson Walker
Why do they consider this a problem but not normal HTTPS?
Austin Bell
Countries can ban encryption by making it illegal to have encrypted data.
Eli Rogers
>Roskomnadzor bans SSL >everything stops working >civil war breaks out >communists take over Russia again with the promise of working SSL
They already have access to all the services most Russians use every day. Telegram is in the unfortunate position of quickly becoming one of these services, hence the shitstorm you see now.
Jason Baker
This. I was laughing at first but now that they started banning jewgle and jewzon I'm jelly.
Mason Nguyen
if the russian government controls the traffic so much how come all shady viruses and shit come from russia and noone gets arrested
Easton Morgan
USA is not bending over. USA literally owns every single one of those services and has access to all logs. USA bends everyone over, not the other way around.
Henry Miller
Because 1. some malware is ordered by russian government 2. they don't give shit about other The government relies on terror and they need access to people's data to keep them in fear. They don't care about preventing real crimes.
Zachary Cook
FUCKING GREAT TELEGRAM IS FUCKING GREAT GO TELEGRAM AND FUCK THOSE COMMIES IN THE ASS
Gavin Moore
I don't get why they didn't just give Russia the keys? I mean every other country they operate in already has them.
Jacob Watson
Cyber crime is Russia is only considered a crime if it affects a Russian citizen, so their viruses skip Russian victims
Gavin Campbell
Because CIA asked Google/Amazon not to do that
Brody Johnson
RUSSIA IS A SHITHOLE. Their women need to move to the glorious United States. It's not like they want to stay there anyhoo. BTFO!
Wyatt Foster
I feel sad for you, lonely guy.
Sebastian Bell
>telegram refused to hand over customers' encryption keys to the FSB BASED. AUTHORITARIAN NIGGERS BTFO
DNS filtering is easier to circumvent than IP filtering. But a combination of both is harder to circumvent than either IP or DNS filtering.
Brody Reed
Good. Don't want the corrupt Russian government to snoop on other countries' users.
Jack Hall
> google and amazon > saying no to US alphabet soup agencies
don't think so
and how would you enforce that?
Tyler Bailey
Not a question of authoritarianism but corruption. The Chinese are more authoritarian but far less corrupt because they have a system of checks and balances in place. Which is why China is rising and surpassing the West.
Dominic Sanders
> china > not corrupt
lamo. it's one of the most corrupt regimes in the world
Matthew Rodriguez
Not at all. It has surprisingly low levels of corruption compared to Russia.
Joshua Nguyen
> not at all > compared to the #1 champion
compare it to the rest of the world champ
Jordan Evans
its so corrupt that the corruption doesn't even show up, you need honest people to report it
Henry Stewart
Sure. But still less corrupt than Ruskies. Chinese regularly shot high-ranking officials for corruption. Ever heard of such thing happening in Russia? Nope because corruption is a way of life there and literally every single government official is corrupted.
Justin Clark
they shoot "corrupt" people in NK too, you have to be an idiot if you even trust their courts to represent justice and not some shady party interest
Hunter Collins
Except NK is more corrupt than China. Authoritarianism and corruption often correlate, but authoritarianism alone is not a bad thing. China owes its rise to authoritarian rule combined with market reform.
Luke Parker
brace for burgershit Jow Forums incoming rationalising censorship because BASED Vovan the savior of vatn.. White Race does it
I guess there are less corruption avenues in NK, a lot of low level corruption goes unnoticed because everyone is in cahoots to watch smuggled SNK and K-POP shows.
Jackson Bennett
>russia no one cares about your barren third world shithole
Ethan Ortiz
>bans /12 subnet just ban /0 and be done with it already lmao
from what i hear, telegram still works in russia for some reason also, isn't it considered illegal for a company to bypass a ruling set up to block their services? wouldn't they get in more trouble? obligatory link to g telegram group t.me/fourchan_g
Nolan Baker
>third world Russia is by definition THE second world nation.
Noah Wilson
and in reality it's stuck in 19th century. at least.
