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		rafram 70 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN a... > your government can decide to block unknown protocols Has any government ever done that? Seems like it would just break everything (because the world is full of devices that use custom protocols!) at great computational expense.

thenthenthen 70 days ago | [–]

China blocked https last week: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/ch...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44958621

rafram 70 days ago | | [–]

They blanket blocked connections to port 443 for an hour. There was no protocol sniffing.

ivanstepanovftw 69 days ago | [–]

Russia tested this in production by blocking Shadowsocks https://habr.com/ru/news/770840/

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