[tor-talk] Cannot finish handshake with directory server (Kazakhstan)

[Andrew Lewman]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:51:21 +0200
Maxim Kammerer <mk at dee.su> wrote:
> As asked by a commenter, is it known which companies supply the
> Tor-focused DPI blocking technology to governments, universities, and
> the like? I see two possible directions where such information might
> be helpful:

Yes, there are many, many companies. Bluecoat, Narus, Cisco, Fortinet,
Nokia/Siemens, come to mind. For Kazakhstan specifically, I don't know
which company they use, or maybe they're building their own like Iran.

See
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/upcoming-supreme-court-case-may-hold-key-holding-spy-tech-companies-responsible

and
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/not-a-hoax-pakistan-requests-proposals-national-filtering-and-blocking-system

and
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/spy-tech-companies-their-authoritarian-customers-part-ii-trovicor-and-area-spa

Or just look at http://spyfiles.org/ for a list of possible companies.

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