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== UAE (#6246) ==
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=== Summary of the current situation ===
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Short summary about current situation.
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=== First witnessed ===
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The Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, also known as Etisalat, started blocking Tor using DPI on June 25 2012.
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=== Last witnessed ===
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The block might still be ongoing but probably not in the entire country. The [https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users&start=2012-04-20&end=2012-07-19&country=ae&dpi=72#direct-users usage statistics] went back up after a sudden drop in the end of June.
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=== Types of Tor censorship ===
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* '''Deep packet inspection''': #6246
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* '''Fingerprint''': unknown
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=== Types of non-Tor censorship ===
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* Unknown.
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=== Ways to bypass censorship ===
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* [https://blog.torproject.org/blog/update-censorship-ethiopia Special bridges] with a patch that removes 0x0039 from SERVER_CIPHER_LIST seem to work.
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* [https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en Obfsproxy] evades the DPI boxes too.
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=== Type of firewall ===
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* Unknown.
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=== Reproducing the blocking ===
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* Binaries, patches etc can be found in [https://gitweb.torproject.org/censorship-timeline.git censorship-timeline.git] |
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