Tor vs Ethiopia

Runa from the Tor project, which oversees production of the anti-censorship/anti-surveillance technology, sez, "We have managed to determine exactly how Ethiopia blocks Tor and we have developed a workaround. We will publish a full technical analysis very soon."

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Had that microsecond of misinterpreting the headline while my brain caught up. I was wondering why a Science Fiction publisher was at odds with Ethiopia.
caipirina

Greetings from Addis Ababa … besides the main problems in this country (draught, famine, lack of education, tourists getting shot in the border regions) … it is actually a very lovely country and the people are overall very friendly …

That said, the internet here SUCKS !!!! pretty much the only link you can get here (from the monopoly ethio telecom, managed in part by Orange) is an EVDO stick with a 4GB monthly cap .. and good luck getting that to work .. these days it feels very much like they are actively signing up more subscribers, but do nothing to expand the network. In the evening hours and on the weekend (when people are not using their hardwired office connection) it is close to impossible to get online in certain areas. So, in a way, Tor is one of my least concerns …

IP piracy otherwise is rampant here .. everywhere you can get CD rips of local music … and even right at the front door of Ednamall, which houses the ‘multiplex’ of the capitol city, you can buy the movie you just watched for 25 Birr (about 1$)

I have lived in other developing countries and about 8 years ago I was even ok with a 56K connection … but the loading of websites (wink wink BoingBoing) has become pretty heavy … and I run out of my 4GB after about 10 days … without any heavy lifting …
- niktemadur
  
  Then for some stupid reason, internet pages keep getting bigger and bigger with no real, discernible added “bang for the buck” ( http://gigaom.com/2012/05/23/the-growing-epidemic-of-page-bloat/ ).
  
  @boingboing-7b13b2203029ed80337f27127a9f1d28:disqus , you would do well to install add-ons like AdBlock and Flashblock into your browser, if you haven’t done so already.
  - caipirina
    
    yep, running click2pluggin (before that click2flash) … any other hints or tricks?
    - elix
      
      Mobile versions of websites tend to be lower-bandwidth, simplified versions of their ordinary counterparts. That being said, some don’t work properly.
- runasand
  
  Pretty please email runa@torproject.org? I have a ton of questions for you :)
  - caipirina
    
    email sent