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Comment by helloaltalt

3 days ago

Quick question but would tor work in this case?

Is this the first country which genuinely effectively is able to ban tor?

Because even in China, tor can work through bridges or some other methods and even Chinese firewalls aren't so extreme as iran right now.

Edit: forgot that north korea exists so I guess the second country but even in north korea there was this chinese interviewer or japanese interviewer who contacted people in north korea ig and those north koreans then interviewed for the first time completely uncensored north korea and it was brutal (a girl saying both her parents died and she was so so skinny i think) , they then went and smuggled the tapes from north korea to china and then to japan and then the company/production company or something blurred the peoples faces involved for anonymity.

There's also this 1 steam connection in north korea so its just gonna be a mystery if we ever see a north korean person using a tor but I am 99% sure that it wont but north korea also got 1 steam connection so you never know.

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flotzam  3 days ago

Tor can reach IPv6 destinations through IPv4 entry nodes, if that's what your asking.

  • helloaltalt  3 days ago

    IPv4 is sanctioned/heavily restricted in iran as well, I mean very high filtering

    The reason they didn't do this for ipv6 is because ipv6 obviously has a lot more addresses and so they just ended up blocking it whole.

    Atleast that's what I read in one of the comment threads discussions in here

    I don't think that in iran there would still be any available ipv4 entry nodes that they would allow. They would filter/block it as well?

    • bawolff  3 days ago

      > I don't think that in iran there would still be any available ipv4 entry nodes that they would allow. They would filter/block it as well?

      That's what bridges are for.

      Blocking is a cat and mouse game. It depends how heavy handed they are about it, but unless they totally cut off the external internet, its unlikely tor is 100% blocked, although it might be effectively blocked for most people.

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