You mean like global internally as well?
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If they want to, they would. VPNs mean anyone can access anything.
Unless the result of being caught is being hung from a crane
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My Persian mate has heard from his family 3x since the war started. Pretty shit for him and his family in Sydney.
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How Iranians are evading internet blocks to contact family abroad
Iranians are finding tech-savvy ways to get through the regime's restrictions on phone and internet connections.
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Cost and unreliability, plus total block means the network is down in its entirety plus as Rick said it is dangerous.
Tell me how you can get caught using a VPN Rick... unless they are physically looking over your shoulder, pretty impossible.
VPNs are relatively cheap and reliable and there is a plethora of choices these days. It isn't dangerous at all as long as you aren't blatant about it.How Iranians are evading internet blocks to contact family abroad
Iranians are finding tech-savvy ways to get through the regime's restrictions on phone and internet connections.
Cost and unreliability, plus total block means the network is down in its entirety plus as Rick said it is dangerous.
China would be similar and anecdotally it is fine.
But yes fair, no network at all would mean anything like that would be impossible.
Some Starlink equipment has been smuggled in to Iran but way more obvious and dangerous.
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Disabled military veterans arrested for peacefully protesting the Iran War at Capitol Hill. A coalition of 200 veterans standing at attention, held red tulips honoring Iranians killed by US bombs,...
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Disabled servicemen and women arrested for protesting against the war in Iran. Thank you for your service
No, but turns out my knowledge is outdated. I was thinking along the lines of the information being encrypted within the tunnel not realising ISP detection had gotten so aggressive. I'll take the L on that one
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Ah you didn't read the article, the cost of a Gig of data in Iran currently is around the thirty $ US....the average wage is $100 a month.
Also Iran is like Nazi Germany, millions of fanatics support the regime, loose lips sink ships.
I'm so glad your old.
And your opinions will die soon.
I know right? Think how long we have to wait for your cohort to die off. Totally unfair
I'll use the analogy of the Maquis in WW2. Everyone is on the same side until you aren't and there's a knock on the door.
You don't need the IRGC looking over your shoulder. Your neighbour or the guy at the end of the street will do that for you.
The IRGC operate like Commissars in the old Soviet system. Every neighbourhood and every village has one, sometimes more.
It's how the population is contained.
Like Dave, I have Persian friends from the old days still in country. We have some contact but very limited and very dangerous.
And I'll go with a smile on my face knowing you helped provide me with a fabulous life. Your opinions don't count either but your tax does.
My sincere thanks.
Clipped from a NYTimes article
There is huge irony in the fact that a top U.S. priority in its war with Iran is reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which, of course, was open before the war. It’s a measure of the leverage — which has long been theoretical but is now proven — represented by Iran’s geographical control of the strait.
Iran’s foes have long argued that if the country managed to obtain a nuclear weapon, it would have the ultimate deterrent against future attacks. It turns out Iran already has a powerful deterrent: its own geography.
The U.S.-Israeli war has shown that Iran has the ability to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic choke point through which 20 percent of the world’s oil supply flows.
The shallow strait forces ships to pass within miles of Iran’s mountainous shore, a landscape that favors weapons like missiles and drones that are hard to eliminate completely.
Iran could emerge from the conflict with a blueprint for its hard-line theocratic government to use to keep its adversaries at bay, regardless of any restrictions on the country’s nuclear program.
“Everyone now knows that if there is a conflict in the future, closing the strait will be the first thing in the Iranian textbook,” said Danny Citrinowicz, a former head of the Iran branch of Israel’s military intelligence agency and a current fellow at the Atlantic Council. “You cannot beat geography.”
Iran tried to block the Strait of Hormuz once before in the 1980s, mining both it and the Persian Gulf during its conflict with Iraq. But mine warfare is dangerous — it can take out friendly vessels as well as enemy ones. Drones and missiles are easier to target precisely.
American military and intelligence officials estimate that, after weeks of war, Iran still has about 40 percent of its arsenal of attack drones and upward of 60 percent of its missile launchers — more than enough to hold shipping in the Strait of Hormuz hostage in the future.
Iran’s control over the strait has forced President Trump to announce a naval blockade of his own.
On Friday, Iran declared the waterway open, sending stock markets surging. Then, on Saturday, the country said the strait remained under its “strict control” unless the U.S. ended its own blockade of Iranian ports.
On Sunday, a U.S. Navy destroyer fired on an Iranian cargo ship and ultimately seized it. Iran’s armed forces called it piracy, warning that they would soon retaliate.
“The Strait of Hormuz isn’t social media. If someone blocks you, you can’t just block them back,” one Iranian diplomatic outpost wrote on X last week.
The U.S. is in a precarious position. The strait, which was open before the war, is no longer a fully accessible waterway. Its adversaries have taken notice.
“It’s not clear how the truce between Washington and Tehran will play out. But one thing is certain — Iran has tested its nuclear weapons. It’s called the Strait of Hormuz. Its potential is inexhaustible,” Dmitri Medvedev, a former president of Russia and deputy chairman of Russia’s security council, wrote on social media last week.
There is huge irony in the fact that a top U.S. priority in its war with Iran is reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which, of course, was open before the war. It’s a measure of the leverage — which has long been theoretical but is now proven — represented by Iran’s geographical control of the strait.
Iran’s foes have long argued that if the country managed to obtain a nuclear weapon, it would have the ultimate deterrent against future attacks. It turns out Iran already has a powerful deterrent: its own geography.
The U.S.-Israeli war has shown that Iran has the ability to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic choke point through which 20 percent of the world’s oil supply flows.
The shallow strait forces ships to pass within miles of Iran’s mountainous shore, a landscape that favors weapons like missiles and drones that are hard to eliminate completely.
“Everyone now knows that if there is a conflict in the future, closing the strait will be the first thing in the Iranian textbook,” said Danny Citrinowicz, a former head of the Iran branch of Israel’s military intelligence agency and a current fellow at the Atlantic Council. “You cannot beat geography.”
Iran tried to block the Strait of Hormuz once before in the 1980s, mining both it and the Persian Gulf during its conflict with Iraq. But mine warfare is dangerous — it can take out friendly vessels as well as enemy ones. Drones and missiles are easier to target precisely.
American military and intelligence officials estimate that, after weeks of war, Iran still has about 40 percent of its arsenal of attack drones and upward of 60 percent of its missile launchers — more than enough to hold shipping in the Strait of Hormuz hostage in the future.
Iran’s control over the strait has forced President Trump to announce a naval blockade of his own.
On Friday, Iran declared the waterway open, sending stock markets surging. Then, on Saturday, the country said the strait remained under its “strict control” unless the U.S. ended its own blockade of Iranian ports.
On Sunday, a U.S. Navy destroyer fired on an Iranian cargo ship and ultimately seized it. Iran’s armed forces called it piracy, warning that they would soon retaliate.
“The Strait of Hormuz isn’t social media. If someone blocks you, you can’t just block them back,” one Iranian diplomatic outpost wrote on X last week.
The U.S. is in a precarious position. The strait, which was open before the war, is no longer a fully accessible waterway. Its adversaries have taken notice.
“It’s not clear how the truce between Washington and Tehran will play out. But one thing is certain — Iran has tested its nuclear weapons. It’s called the Strait of Hormuz. Its potential is inexhaustible,” Dmitri Medvedev, a former president of Russia and deputy chairman of Russia’s security council, wrote on social media last week.
Hideous. John key has a lot to answer for here too
Everyone sharing in the risk and the cost. Unless you have bone spurs.
Well, he did save someone's life, sort of. I'm surprised he wasn't a nomination for Medal Of Honour. Early days I guess
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