[tor-relays] exit policy to reflect country-wide ban

Philipp Winter phw at nymity.ch
Mon Dec 8 00:43:55 UTC 2014


On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 05:55:10PM +0300, Vladimir Ivanov wrote:
> Recently, github was blocked in Russia (see discussion here:
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8692584). The ban is executed by
> all major ISPs (comply with this regulation is necessary to keep the
> telecom license so no ISP is risking to disobey), this means that if
> your exit node happens to be in Russia, you're out of luck when you
> try to connect to github.

GitHub now seems to cooperate with the Russian government and started
GeoIP-based blocking.  Russian exit relays should no longer be affected
by HTTPS MitM.

Cheers,
Philipp


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