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Verizon Blocking VPN Traffic
Jonathan Gutierrez
Matthew Cooper
Take it to the press. Slashdot, The Register, and ZDNET should all be interested in this. Find a couple folks who are also experiencing this block so they can also talk to the news. Make sure to confirm it happens independent of IP, of device, and of account owner (ie. anyone with Verizon in your area has the same problem). Mention how it plays into the lack of Net Neutrality because it's important and that should help with the headline.
They won't roll it out everywhere at once because the odds of a large media shitstorm as well as the odds of a class-action will rise dramatically if they do. Instead they're going to go at it regionally, targeting people who are unlikely to pack legal clout or get noticed by media organizations, and quietly begin rolling it out by degrees while denying they're doing anything of the sort.
Adrian Morales
You recall that this was because Kimmo Alm, of anontalk fame, subjected the Verizon network to spoofed packet DDoS attacks and made it look like halfchan was trying to hurt their network, right?
Robert Sullivan
Network Neutrality? More like Network BRUTALITY, amirite?
Brody Morales
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Adam Martin
It's the hacker way. They can take our politicians, but they can't take our tech. Where there's a will, there's a way.
The FCC website under Pai was flooded by a giant rash of fake support for repealing net neutrality. I found Obama listed there 4-5 times with the same copypaste support of repealing net neutrality as tens of thousands of others. But when negative comments started pouring through the server suddenly went down because it, uh, couldn't handle the activity.
Matthew Baker
you seem like one of those idiots that thinks regression or abstinence from technology is a reasonable solution for a competing 1st world nation.
Ayden Brooks
Hide the VPN in a SSH tunnel.
Cameron Edwards
Network guy here. You're all late to the party by about 15 years. AT&T and others block most real VPNs (not meme transport layer VPNs) unless you pay them for "business class". Same lines, same modems, it's 10x the price to disable the filters.
Connor Wilson
Networking is a fun thing to learn. I was a sysadmin when I was forced to dive in and figure out how to get around things like this.
Ultimately your ISP has a few options for controlling L3 and the easiest is to block tunneling ports. When I supported a large corporation we regularly had to deal with telling remote employees they couldn't access the VPN without some work. Work being either changing their Comcast/Verizon plan to a business plan, because business plans get to request certain things not be blocked. I recall comcast support was useless to even admit anything was blocked until I called the tech number registered with ARIN for the IP we were assigned.
If we couldn't change the plan to business the only other option was give them VPN over a non-traditional port like 21-22,80,443 where they couldn't really justify blocking traffic without violating their own TOS.