Russland gibt über eine halbe Milliarde Dollar aus, um VPN-Dienste zu blockieren

18 comments

1. Echo chamber

2. Man, Russia really likes wasting everything these days huh?

3. Why is Russia able to use the internet still? Can’t it be shut down?

4. What does this actually mean though? They already use Deep Packet Inspection to block VPN that use common systems like OpenVPN or Wireguard. They block IPs over VPN servers. They can’t block proxies and VPN over proxies, but that would be really difficult regardless of how much money they spend.

5. It sounds like a win-win. 

6. I mean if China and their much greater ability hasn’t succeeded fully I doubt this will either

7. Putin will be the only person allowed to
   Watch Transgender porn .

8. They might as well just light the money on fire.

9. Russians are not allowed to know Russia is evil.

10. Excellent, this means they are failing to maintain even a half-assed result out of the war other than utter ruin. They limit info more and more so the government can more successfully declare false victories or make mountains of molehills whilst ignoring strategic defeats like Kursk and pretending problems are all ‘handled’ and somehow a victory.

    It is a basic admission that the military and even more the economy (not to mention the future of the Russian Federation for decades to come) are all crashing down. And that is a message to suppress by these methods for bad guys.

11. all they have to do is cut a few more sea cables and they should be good to go.

12. it’s funny because all the YouTubers they pay to spread propaganda are trying to sell VPNs via sponsorships

13. I’m sure Reddit will defend that like they did with Brazil’s VPN crackdown lol

14. If it only cost half a billion to block all VPN services just about every country on the planet with an ultra conservative government would do it… the fact they haven’t and the fact that countries everywhere struggle to deal with vpns even when they crack down heavily on them tells me all i need to know about how effective this will be.

15. Just imagine … if they didn’t invade their neighbor and using these billions of billions of dollars for the development of their country, such as funding science projects, building schools, hospitals, roads, or increasing citizens’ salaries, pensions etc…

16. Are they going to spend half a billion dollars, or are they going to bring half a billion rubles worth of horses to some software engineers?

17. Too lazy to find details. How are they planning on doing this? Filtering at the isp dmarc?

18. Why does Russia have to spend money to do this? Who are they paying?

    why not blackmail(with death) the best of the best homegrown Russian hackers to do it for free?

    /s fuck Russia