The Ministry of Transport sent a letter to 381 organizations in the transport industry dated November 10. According to it, Roskomnadzor will block VPN services that use the Shadowsocks protocol.
It exists in China to bypass blocking. In Russia they will prohibit him from working at cross-border communication centers. Also included in the RKN kit is the Russian program ItHelper – this is a service for speeding up the operation of devices with a VPN connection.
In order not to interfere with the work of companies using VPNs, the agency requests information from them about the use of the software. These are used to create a “white list” of software that is allowed to operate.
Blocking Shadowsocks through traffic analysis will be a very important factor due to obsfuscation – high risks apply to other, completely legal services.
– Kommersant’s interlocutor
The head of the association of small telecom operators claims that blocking VPNs that use the obfuscation function (approx. Allows you to hide your VPN traffic and use VPN), which leads to trends in network operators and services that “inevitably lead to the unavailability of a number of legal services.” [Коммерсантъ]
Source: Iphones RU
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