Posted on 03/24/2018 7:41:06 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
The Turkish government is preparing to block VPN traffic within to country, an official from Information and Communication Technologies Authority said.
Speaking in front of a parliamentary commission, informatics expert Leven Gonenc said that Virtual Private Networks (VPN) are a global problem and currently they are on the test phase of blocking VPN traffic within the country.
According to Gonenc, Turkey took serious measures against the VPNs, and targets to move forward phase to phase.
Gonenc pointed out the complexity of the issue and said, “There is a provision in the law (of communication) about alternative communication methods like VPN. Within this context we warned the ISPs. There are serious measures taken by them and we are testing it”.
It continues to amaze me how far Turkey is willing to go to silence any criticism.
The number of people in jail in Turkey for criticizing Erdogan is amazing.
Its what the left wants to do here with the political opposition.
There is to be no questioning of the groupthink or mob rule.
The left here does not want ‘mob rule’, aka a democracy; they want a dictatorship by some other name.
VPN blocking by the govt. is SOP in Dubai, Abh Dhabi...
This guy Erdogan is as paranoid as Adolf Hitler was. Hmm.
Erdogan’s former classmate blasts anti-Semitism on Turkish TV (Smadar Perry|Published: 04.08.14)
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4507646,00.html
“I remember him very well: He came from a simple family and was an indrawn boy who would get angry very fast. He would walk around with a copy of Adolf Hitler's ‘Mein Kampf,’” Krispin recalls. “Over the years I learned that he hates us and is afraid of us. He believes we have bionic powers and are capable of destroying everything he builds, even from far away.”
Indeed, the “Red Apple” series, which has become a tremendous success among millions of viewers in Turkey and around the world, devoutly presents the ruler's worldview.
Absolutely, I totally agree.
I did not know how common it was. I knew that in Syria and the Region, VPN was only secure way to be on web. (I’m not sure how secure. I suspect denial of service is the most common way to attack VPN)
VPNs are used, among other uses, by legitimate employees working at home and needing access to their company’s system.
But this is turkey - a country that rejected civilization and embraced savagery.
We have Chinese friends that can only use a VPN to get to Facebook and such. They are constantly having to get a new one. Not sure why they quit working.
Along with Tor there are literally an infinite variety of ways to connect out of any country but some will cost monthly fees and most will involve rigamarole. The problem Turkey has is either they allow internet from the rest of the world which means anything people want, or they cut it off, possibly creating a fake domestic internet in its place.
It’s whakamole. The censoring country will never be able to preemptively block anything new, so they block the old. It’s cumbersome and can be slow, but if there’s connectivity out, there will be a stealthy way to get anywhere.
Any eCommerce in Turkey would then be stifled as a result (no one wants financial traffic going in the clar) and that would give Turkey the same capability to sniff/inspect all traffic just like China does.
Don't know if Turkey has the MEANS to do that, the capability would be there though.
Certainly not good for any dissenting voice in Turkey.
If I'm not mistaken, all of which use SSL encryption which means if Turkey moves to block SSL, Tor and any of the other traffic anonymization sites won't work at all.
It's so problematic when the government can't spy on everything you do.
I used a VPN when I lived in Saudi for 2 years.
I would have gone nuts without it.
VPN service packages should be selling like hotcakes.
Some number of undetectable encrypted bits can be inserted into anything (e.g. an image) so no need for SSL negotiation The detection of cipher text is another whackamole exercise and new hiding techqniques can always be developed. Those bits can ride over HTTP, no need for HTTPS. OTOH the world is moving to HTTPS so if Turkey blocks HTTPS they are blocking the world, and might as well cut the cord completely.
The bottom line is there is either access to everything in the outside world, or access to nothing. The access might be very slow.
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