Iranians turn to Starlink, decentralized messaging apps, and VPNs to circumvent an internet blackout; NetBlocks says connectivity is at ~1% of ordinary levels
it's never who you thinkTimes of India:Iran's internet shutdown extends for more than 2 days amid US-Israel cyberattack reportsAisha Down /The Guardian:Internet blackout is tool of desperate regime to...
Iranians turn to Starlink, decentralized messaging apps, and VPNs to circumvent an internet blackout; NetBlocks says connectivity is at 1% of ordinary levels
Iranians face third day of internet blackout as connectivity hits 1%Zack Whittaker /TechCrunch:Hackers and internet outages hit Iran amid US air strikesCarly Page /The Register:Iran all but vanishes f...
How Turkmenistan turned censorship into a lucrative extortion scheme by intentionally restricting internet access in order to sell its own VPNs to citizens
In July 2021, a sudden drop in Tor usage in Turkmenistan called our attention. Tor would come to understand that this marked … Mastodon: @torproject@mastodon.social Mastodon: @torproject@mastodon.soc...
Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification
Bluesky's decision to drop out of the Mississippi market … Rob Pegoraro / PCMag : Bluesky Blocks Mississippi Users Instead of Making Them Prove They're Over 18 Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press ...
Sources: in a meeting with UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle, Sam Altman proposed giving ChatGPT Plus to everyone in the UK, a deal that would have cost £2B
“we'll give your entire country chatgpt plus for £2bn. please???” — also, fuck you peter kyle for even taking this meeting. Mateusz Fafinski / @calthalas : Two billion for country-wide access to Ch...
Some users are circumventing UK's age checks by using VPNs, providing fake AI-generated photo IDs, or using images of high-fidelity video game characters
It's a privacy nightmare and is the slipperest of slopes. @kaidzsu.com : my headcanon is twitter rolled out the UK age verification nightmare for the entirety of Europe because the one remaining devel...
Bluesky rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with the Online Safety Act; users under 18 or opting out of age verification will have limited accounts
The Online Safety Act has unleashed an unregulated market in age verification. — That we have to do these intrusive checks with countless providers for different platforms is dangerous. — www.thev...
Fleet, which offers open-source device management tools for OSes, various networks, VPNs, and more, raised a $27M Series B led by Ten Eleven Ventures
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A look at China's booming crypto market, with Chinese traders using VPNs, offshore shell companies, and peer-to-peer networks to circumvent China's crackdown
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Cybersecurity company Pango Group acquires all of Kaspersky's US customers, or ~1M users, after the Commerce Department banned Kaspersky's software in the US
- Pango owns and offers a portfolio of cybersecurity products, including VPNs, antivirus software and identity theft protection tools.