We are preparing for the offensive of the Great Russian Firewall

In Russia, we started testing the domestic firewall, the first test city that was chosen was Volgograd.

It has blocked websites: Vk.com, Youtube.com
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In this post I want to highlight the problems of free access to information and methods of protection against firewalls.


Reading this post, you might be thinking:
- No in my city this will not be! (one)
- I don’t care so that I’m not interested in “extremist” websites (2)

(1) You are wrong, as soon as the law works in full force and the register of “bad” sites will be replenished every day, all providers will be obliged to filter user traffic in one way or another.

(2) I propose to consider this category of people in more detail, as many think, if you installed Tor or i2p, then you are paranoid or you are hiding something.

Well, if this law really worked for really bad sites (the same Caucasus center for example), but no, it’s necessary to block all Youtube or Vkontakte.

Maybe you will say - “I am not interested in Vkontakte - it is for hamsters and downloading music” and on Youtube people only watch some This is good ... and that kind of fun.

But if we consider that 90% of students exchange information on their studies through contact groups, blocking the site will lead to the creation of a global hemorrhoid to students.

And on Youtube, many people watch educational videos, various life hacks, learn English or legally watch Mosfilm films.

Now imagine for 1 second, a resolution is issued on blocking the following sites:
- vk.com
- facebook.com
- wikipedia.org
- youtube.com
- vimeo.com
- livejournal.com
- twitter.com

Thus you will be cut off from almost the entire Internet.
And what if you have a diploma defense, the beginning of the session tomorrow and you urgently need to see the materials from Youtube / vk?

And now - how to deal with it?

There are 5 main ways to get information during the information blockade:
(5 point scale)



A little more about the "network access speed"
One of the interesting properties of any p2p network is that the more participants the greater the total speed and throughput of the network.
I2P network is no exception, the more participants there will be, the faster and more secure the network will be.

Why, by “Anonymity,” does I2P stand at 5 and at TOR 2?
Because the I2P network believes that all nodes in it are captured by intruders and at the same time ensured anonymity and efficiency.

At TOR, it’s enough to create your gateway to the large Internet and “listen” to traffic and passwords, which is by the way the governments of various countries are doing now.

What is bad paid VPN or VPS server?

- The fact that you can be identified with the help of 1 request to the hoster, which has the data of your payment card.
The Tor and i2p networks lack this flaw.

Why is installing I2P safer than TOR?

The I2P and Tor networks are very similar, but their meaning is different.
Tor - Multi-Layer Proxy for Internet Access
I2P - Internet on the Internet, encrypted, anonymous and without IP addresses

Thus, installing i2p on your computer, you will not in any way become a gateway for traffic to the global Internet.

The network will only drive traffic through you.

Why install i2p now?

- The higher the network capacity, the faster it is and even if you don’t use it, then let these 2 Mb / s go to the needs of the network, but the network will work faster, which will stimulate the influx of new users.

And at the moment X, when something dear to you will be blocked - you will be able to go to another Internet in 1 click.

The official site of the project I2P

Tor official web site