Russia Blocks 167 VPNs, Steps Up OpenVPN and WireGuard Disruption

"Providing advice on the use of VPNs or similar tools to access banned internet resources, including ‘extremist’ Western social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, was rendered a criminal offense."

Crazy

and to think, before covid fell i joked i wanted to take the train from moscow to beijing then hang out in vietnam because they let you shitpost about china...

how quickly geopolitics can change -- head of the troll factory shot out of the sky, and the foundations of geopolitics embedded in dugina's skull.

> In addition to driving out non-compliant VPN providers and using regular means to block domains and IP addresses

How do they get the point-of-presence VPN IPs? Does Russia go to the OpenVPN/Wireguard page of VPN services and download each country config file and build a naughty list of VPN IPs?

Most likely

I wonder whether WireGuard's operation at the packet layer makes this easier. Probably.

For wireguard they usually intercept handshake packets. There's no significant differences from tcp-based VPN protocols in this regard.