NYT piece worth reading on what’s happening with Russia’s internet right now: Article Quick background: Since early March, Moscow and St. Petersburg have experienced widespread mobile internet blackouts — not just blocked apps, but full mobile data shutdowns. Telegram is reportedly being blocked en…

The Tor Project team is working on a solution to distribute WebTunnel bridges over email in addition to Telegram: [image] Distribute WebTunnel bridges by email (#298) · Issues · The Tor Project /... Given the increasing problems with obfs4 in Russia, should we distribute WebTunnel bridg…

There is an ongoing thread regarding “white-listing” of IP and / or domains in Russia at the Tor Project forum. (see below) As far as I understand Tor webtunnel bridges are not the solution, not even with sni-imitation. [image] Help find working method to circumvent Internet shutdown m…

Russia is moving to a whitelist-only Internet, so any bypass will no longer work. That being said, Russian netizens have started using Meshstatic , a decentralised network that doesn’t use Internet. Article For now, they use it to communicate with friends and family, for up to 100 km 10-50km. But it…

Next step could be criminalizing Meshtastic if its usage becomes too widespread, then I guess Russians would only be left with the Sneakernet.

[image] TheDoc: Next step could be criminalizing Meshtastic if its usage becomes too widespread, then I guess Russians would only be left with the Sneakernet They can try banning it but they can’t confiscate existing devices. Also, the cost of banning those is superior to the benefits, for no…

The Tor threads are interesting. Thanks for posting them. After reading them it seems like the most effective “solution” is social and legal, not technology. And, so far, at least from my limited outsider view, it’s a cat and mouse game with the Russian government marshaling unlimited resources. W…

I wonder if Russia will be the next China GFW. I got an old grandfathered Yandex account from back when they do mailhosting for custom domain for free. Back then they allowed upto 1000 mailbox of 5gb each for $0, now gimped to just 5 mailbox due to the sanction and whatnot but its still works and ac…

[image] arise1984: I wonder if Russia will be the next China GFW China still operates on a extensive blacklist and heuristic-based system, as to keep those who really want to connected. Russia has moved well pass that in a very short period. Russia is now an hybrid between China model and Nor…

I read an article in the FT (IIRC) a few months ago that said the Russian’s are investing heavily in developing their own tech’ mainly because western sanctions have exposed some serious vulnerabilities caused by dependencies on western companies for both hardware and software maintenance by the big…

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FranklyFlawless (Frank Lý) March 31, 2026, 8:14pm 2

The Tor Project team is working on a solution to distribute WebTunnel bridges over email in addition to Telegram:

The due date on the issue is May 12th, 2026. In the meantime, use this first-stop solution for circumvention:

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