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In Russia, the Chinese Shadowsocks protocol is being blocked for quick access to banned sites. Due to the peculiarities of its work, getting Shadowsocks into the" black list " of Roskomnadzor threatens to drop the stability of the Runet – the operation of sites that are allowed to be accessed by citizens and residents of Russia may be disrupted.
They want to break the Internet
Roskomnadzor has updated the list of VPN services subject to blocking – from now on it includes the Shadowsocks protocol, writes Kommersant. Shadowsocks is a development of Chinese specialists, thanks to which you can visit Internet resources that are prohibited in a particular country.
On the one hand, adding a new item to the" black list " of ILCs is a phenomenon that has long become routine. On the other hand, Shadowsocks has a special way of working – it disguises its traffic as other Internet services, which can confuse Russian blocking technologies. The potential result is massive instability of the operation of "legitimate" sites, that is, those that are still open in Russia, according to an unnamed Kommersant source. "Blocking Shadowsocks through traffic analysis will be very difficult due to obfuscation – there are high risks of affecting other, completely legal services," he said.
TSPU to help
The addition of Shadowsocks to the" blacklist " of Roskomnadzor follows from the letter of the Ministry of Transport dated November 10, 2023, the addressees of which are more than 380 companies in the transport sector, writes Kommersant. It says that the regulator will block VPN services, using its capabilities for centralized Internet management, that is, through TSPU devices that are currently implemented in the networks of providers and telecom operators. Telecom companies are required by law to install these "pieces of hardware"-they are forced to do so by the so – called "Spring package".
According to a letter from the Ministry of Transport, Roskomnadzor's fight against VPN services is going to take a very large scale, because Shadowsocks is not the only service that faces the threat of blocking. In total, at the time of sending the letter, the "firing list" consisted of 49 items, including specific VPN services and individual protocols, that is, technologies.
Recall that earlier in 2023, the OpenVPN protocol, which is used by hundreds of companies across the country, including large businesses, to organize their internal corporate networks, stopped working at least twice across the country. The official reasons for their temporary inactivity are not disclosed, and no one gives guarantees that this will not happen again.
Import substitution and friendship with China-not a panacea
Shadowsocks is an open source encryption protocol. Developed in China, it was originally intended to bypass only the so-called "Great Chinese Firewall", but later became widespread and recognized around the world.
The project has been developing since 2012 – it is backed by a developer under the pseudonym clowwindy. From the very beginning, Shadowsocks has its own page in the GitHub repository, thanks to which the project has received very broad support from the developer community.
According to the publication, Shadowsocks is proposed to be blocked immediately on cross-border communication nodes. The ItHelper service is likely to suffer a similar fate. This, unlike Shadowsocks, is developed not by Chinese, but by Russian programmers-it is developed by the domestic company Soft Program.
ItHelper is a service for speeding up devices with a built-in VPN, and it is distributed in Russia not only on a legal basis, but also on a paid basis. You could buy a subscription to it at the time of publication of the material without leaving your home, paying for it using any method that is still valid in Russia. The editors of CNews found the corresponding offer in the online stores "Eldorado", "M. Video "and"Beeline".
History repeats itself
In the recent past, Russians have already faced the failure of a huge number of Russian Internet resources, including numerous Yandex and VK services, due to the state's" hunt " for one particular service. In the spring of 2018, the Telegram messenger was blacklisted by Roskomnadzor, which, despite the fact of blocking, continued to work steadily in the country until its "amnesty" in June 2020. But access to other Runet resources was very difficult for several days precisely because of the Telegram block.
They want to break the Internet
Roskomnadzor has updated the list of VPN services subject to blocking – from now on it includes the Shadowsocks protocol, writes Kommersant. Shadowsocks is a development of Chinese specialists, thanks to which you can visit Internet resources that are prohibited in a particular country.
On the one hand, adding a new item to the" black list " of ILCs is a phenomenon that has long become routine. On the other hand, Shadowsocks has a special way of working – it disguises its traffic as other Internet services, which can confuse Russian blocking technologies. The potential result is massive instability of the operation of "legitimate" sites, that is, those that are still open in Russia, according to an unnamed Kommersant source. "Blocking Shadowsocks through traffic analysis will be very difficult due to obfuscation – there are high risks of affecting other, completely legal services," he said.
TSPU to help
The addition of Shadowsocks to the" blacklist " of Roskomnadzor follows from the letter of the Ministry of Transport dated November 10, 2023, the addressees of which are more than 380 companies in the transport sector, writes Kommersant. It says that the regulator will block VPN services, using its capabilities for centralized Internet management, that is, through TSPU devices that are currently implemented in the networks of providers and telecom operators. Telecom companies are required by law to install these "pieces of hardware"-they are forced to do so by the so – called "Spring package".
According to a letter from the Ministry of Transport, Roskomnadzor's fight against VPN services is going to take a very large scale, because Shadowsocks is not the only service that faces the threat of blocking. In total, at the time of sending the letter, the "firing list" consisted of 49 items, including specific VPN services and individual protocols, that is, technologies.
Recall that earlier in 2023, the OpenVPN protocol, which is used by hundreds of companies across the country, including large businesses, to organize their internal corporate networks, stopped working at least twice across the country. The official reasons for their temporary inactivity are not disclosed, and no one gives guarantees that this will not happen again.
Import substitution and friendship with China-not a panacea
Shadowsocks is an open source encryption protocol. Developed in China, it was originally intended to bypass only the so-called "Great Chinese Firewall", but later became widespread and recognized around the world.
The project has been developing since 2012 – it is backed by a developer under the pseudonym clowwindy. From the very beginning, Shadowsocks has its own page in the GitHub repository, thanks to which the project has received very broad support from the developer community.
According to the publication, Shadowsocks is proposed to be blocked immediately on cross-border communication nodes. The ItHelper service is likely to suffer a similar fate. This, unlike Shadowsocks, is developed not by Chinese, but by Russian programmers-it is developed by the domestic company Soft Program.
ItHelper is a service for speeding up devices with a built-in VPN, and it is distributed in Russia not only on a legal basis, but also on a paid basis. You could buy a subscription to it at the time of publication of the material without leaving your home, paying for it using any method that is still valid in Russia. The editors of CNews found the corresponding offer in the online stores "Eldorado", "M. Video "and"Beeline".
History repeats itself
In the recent past, Russians have already faced the failure of a huge number of Russian Internet resources, including numerous Yandex and VK services, due to the state's" hunt " for one particular service. In the spring of 2018, the Telegram messenger was blacklisted by Roskomnadzor, which, despite the fact of blocking, continued to work steadily in the country until its "amnesty" in June 2020. But access to other Runet resources was very difficult for several days precisely because of the Telegram block.
