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By 2008, Iran had blocked access to more than five million websites, whose content was deemed as immoral and anti-social. [123] Below is an incomplete list of well-known websites blocked by Iran: [124] [125] [122] [5] [126] File hosting: General: Internet Archive (not filtered as of 2024) Videos: YouTube, Twitch, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Nico Video ...
VPN blocking is a technique used to block the encrypted protocol tunneling communications methods used by virtual private network (VPN) systems. Often used by large organizations such as national governments or corporations, it can act as a tool for computer security or Internet censorship by preventing the use of VPNs to bypass network ...
Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as Wikipedia.org, for example) but exceptionally may extend to all Internet resources located outside the jurisdiction of the censoring state.
Censorship in Iran is not just an act by an individual. It is a process that involves interaction and negotiation. The complexity and ambiguity of the system stimulate self-censorship and create a culture of censorship. [25] However, not everything is negotiable. Criticism of the Supreme Leader, for example, is strictly prohibited.
Internet censorship circumvention, also referred to as going over the wall (Chinese: 翻墙; pinyin: fān qiáng) [1][2] or scientific browsing (Chinese: 科学上网; pinyin: kēxué shàngwǎng) [3] in China, is the use of various methods and tools to bypass internet censorship. There are many different techniques to bypass such censorship ...
Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm first uncovered in 2010 and thought to have been in development since at least 2005. Stuxnet targets supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and is believed to be responsible for causing substantial damage to the nuclear program of Iran. [ 2 ]
The Iranian Cyber Police (Persian: پلیس فضای تولید و تبادل اطلاعات ایران, Pelis-e Fezai-ye Tulid-e vâ Tebadâl-e Atlâ'at-e Iran, lit. The Police for the Sphere of the Production and Exchange of Information, [1] also known as FATA Persian: فتا) is a unit of the Islamic Republic of Iran Police, founded in January 2011.
Snowflake is a software package for assisting others in circumventing internet censorship by relaying data requests. Snowflake relay nodes are meant to be created by people in countries where Tor and Snowflake are not blocked. [1] People under censorship then use a Snowflake client, packaged with the Tor Browser or Onion Browser, [2] to access ...