Tor blockers started in Belarus

In short, Tor is software for creating an anonymous and listen-protected connection. Tor allows you to hide your surfing on the Internet from the provider and access blocked resources in your country.

The decision to block Tor in Belarus was made at the beginning of 2015.

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11. The State Inspectorate in identifying Internet resources, means of ensuring anonymity (proxy servers, anonymous networks like Tor and others), which allow Internet service users to access Internet resources whose identifiers are included in the restricted access list, adds to the list of restricted access ids of these
Internet resources, means of ensuring anonymity.
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And at the end of November - early December, there were user reviews about the unavailability of Tor (in particular, on the networks of the Internet provider Atlant Telecom and the mobile operator Velcom ( recently owned by one company ):


According to metrics.torproject.org statistics, in early December, the number of users from Belarus using Tor without bridges decreased from 5,500 to 3,000.
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At the same time, the number of using bridges increased by about 1000.


It seems that at the moment in Belarus access to public Tor sites is blocked; Services are still available when using bridges. Together with the use of bridges, it is recommended to obfuscate traffic using obfs4proxy to hide the use of Tor from the provider.

To access from the desktop, the easiest way is to download the Tor Bundle and select “This computer's Internet connection is censored or proxied” at startup, and then follow the wizard’s instructions.

Orbot is available for Android, where in the settings it is enough to set the checkbox “Use bridges”. At the same time, for the described programs, manual inquiry and input of hidden nodes is not needed yet (instructions on receiving and manually entering Tor nodes are available here and here ).

Finally, I remind you that encryption and anonymity on the Internet are an inalienable human right according to the decision of the UN Council .