Comments on: The Proxy Fight for Iranian Democracy - Renesys Blog

By: lance

lance — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:32:06 +0000

I guess it is no shocking news that my blog is being censored. Unfortunately the VoA stopped sponsoring that program shortly before the election. Not the best timing. We are looking for another partner to support that activity.

I am not sure why TNS might be slowing down. It could be that the Iranian deep packet inspection firewalls are intentionally degrading SSH connections. Do you have the ability to test SSH to other servers outside of the country?

We are working on a new platform for our service that will provide significantly expanded capabilities and should also greatly improve performance. Watch this space this fall.

By: Houman

Houman — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:43:46 +0000

As an Iranian inside the country(and Anonymizer TNS customer) I’d like to thank you Lance for the post.

-Is anonymizer still involved with VOA/Persian providing web proxy for Iranians?

-Recently TNS has become extremely slow here(almost useless) and constantly connecting/disconnecting from the server. from my tests, I know that it is not my PC/laptop and/or network. I have informed the support guys but all I receive is ‘we are trying to expand our capacities and it takes time’.

I will appreciate if you could do something about that. Without proper access to internet we are simply blind. Even your blog(theprivacyblog.com) is filtered here.

Houman
Tehran,Iran

By: lance

lance — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:14:45 +0000

Yes, that is a real risk. If that starts to happen, then we will need to start using cryptographic authentication and the reputation of the person or organization hosting the server to prevent that attack. The international backlash would probably be large as well.

By: allan

allan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:09:16 +0000

Is there potential for governments to set up proxy decoys as snares and promote them in these same channels?

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