Middle East countries have been facing the outlandish experience of internet censorship since ages. The media and the commoners there are barred from expressing their personal view opinions regarding the government decisions. Anything found to be of criticizing nature or against the interest of the ruling party is banned outright, be it a [...]
Iran recently blocked PPTP and L2TP VPN Protocols and In a another recent declaration, the Telecommunications Minister of Iran, Reza Taghipour has deemed the use of VPNs and anti-filtering tools as illegal. Such an announcement has not been [...]
Censorship in the Middle East countries is not any new thing. In the earlier times, it was restricted to the speech to freedom through newspapers, journals and similar modes; nowadays, internet has also fallen to its prey. Countries such as Syria, Egypt, Iran and more have been blocking the websites they find objectionable [...]
BitTorrent has evolved as the biggest and most popular medium for file sharing, it has been used heavily by internet users for downloading files since almost a decade. However, in the recent times, it has received stiff competition from varied alternatives of file sharing such as Usenet and hence it becomes necessary [...]
After Iran it is Syria that has blocked all VPN Services running on PPTP and L2TP VPN protocols. For those who don’t know what is PPTP and L2TP, kindly read VPN protocols to get the details.
It has been [...]
Reports are coming in from Iran that one of the most used VPN protocol that is Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) has been blocked today i.e. 29th September, 2011.
However, L2TP VPN Protocol was blocked two weeks back. Iran is a country with extremely tight policy on internet and [...]
This article is Part 2 of the series on Internet Censorship in Asian Countries. To read Part 1 please click here.
Online content filtering is not an alien thing in the current scenario. Considering the raising incidents of terrorism and breach of internet [...]
VPN helps to assure due confidentiality of your credentials since the service providers mostly prefer not to keep the log of the traffic generated from your server. But due to stiff security measures being followed by the US government and several other countries, the companies based in this country may often be asked to tap [...]
While there are genuine people who utilize world wide web for personal or professional growth, there is also no dearth of hackers who might track your IP location to use your sensitive information to execute an objectionable task. Internet is no doubt an exquisite facility and it is definitely hard to part ways with it [...]
Since ages, administrative bodies of various countries had been imposing restrictions on the freedom of commoners in some form or the other; the pathetic situation still continues in most of the Asian, African and Middle Eastern nations.
Whereas, in the older times, the rights of speech and rational thinking were at stake, today, these have [...]
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You must be hearing a lot about VPN these days. We have witnessed and seen the demand of VPN rising. Moreover, Google trends also show the rise in the search trend of VPN and VPN related keywords.
This is mainly due to increased internet censorship and extensive visitor tracking worldwide. Internet censorship [...]
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