Telegram lock - prepare for the worst?

As you know, yesterday Roskomnadzor asked the court to block Telegram. It should be understood that the games are over and the messenger will be blocked with a very high degree of probability. The case itself was brought under the suit of Roskomnadzor, and Judge Smolin Y.M. Already managed to hold a preparatory meeting in the Tagansky Court of Moscow. Telegram lawyers were not at the meeting. Someone says that Durov himself ordered not to appear at the trial, but it may well be that the experts simply did not have time to prepare. For everything about everything, they had only a few hours and it is clear that no one would be able to arrange everything at once.

Today, April 13, at 10 o'clock, there will be a substantive consideration of the claim. Cabinet 301, Tagansky District Court - everyone can come. Knowing Roskomnadzor, one can be sure that the department will insist on blocking the messenger and it will happen sooner or later (or not?). But it is worth preparing in advance.

Bypass blocking

Actually, it is a bit strange to write on Habré how to get around the blocking of the messenger in the Russian Federation, but just in case, we’ll point out some interesting points.
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Proxy

In 2017, Telegram's management added to its messenger the ability to bypass almost any locks using proxy servers, sharpened to work using the SOCKS5 protocol.

VPN

One of them is VPNs, a list of which can be viewed on the Roskomsvoboda website (specialists of the organization have long predicted something similar). Their project provides a list of VPN services that, according to Roskomvobod, "best meet the requirements of reliability and security when using the Internet." The list of available services that are used by IT-defenders and ordinary users around the world.

The most famous VPN-clients for the desktop can be called such systems as TunnelBear, FreeOpenVPN, CyberGhost, Hola. Some customers are paid (well, what to do), the price of services, such as HotSpot Shield, Mullvad, Zenmate, IPVanish VPN, NordVPN, starts from five dollars a month.

For mobile devices, Universal Opera VPN, Onavo Protect, CyberGhost, VyprVPN, Nord VPN, Express VPN applications are recommended.

And one more solution

We understand that Habr is a place where developers hang out, so we recommend your own solution. It appeared back in 2017, because it was clear that the problems with blocking websites themselves would not resolve.

This is an iNinja extension that currently works only under Chrome. It allows you to access all blocked resources. Telegram is not an exception; SOCKS5 connection function has been added to the extension.



The extension is installed as usual, from the directory, there is nothing new here. Voila - everything is already installed. You also need to install an add-on for iNinja, it also takes a minute, not more.







Well, after that, everything is ready.



You can choose the proxy server closest to you and work in any application. As soon as the “hour X” comes for the Telegram, everything is simple - click “Use in another application” => “Use in Telegram” => open the installed TG and everything, we communicate.





Telegram has been added to the expansion functionality recently, but everything is working, tested. The developers promise to improve and improve the expansion. If you have any suggestions, criticisms, wishes, then you can contact the developers in the iNinja channel in the same Telegram .

I would like to hope, of course, that after the court hearing this morning, we don’t need to bypass the blocking, but who knows.