Dear friends,
“Russian” websites in/from the LDNR are being disconnected by US IT giants.
The Russian Foreign Ministry seems to be under DDoS attack.
If we come under attack too, then the first quick alternative I recommend is to check the old website, here:
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/
If this one is also disconnected, we have a few other options we cannot discuss now.
If that happens, I will use the following Telegram channel to keep you informed:
Please do NOT post any comments below unless they refer to a possible attack or how to bypass it. Only PURELY TECHNICAL posts are allowed in the comments section below.
Thank you
Andrei
UPDATE1: so far, https://sputniknews.com/20220217/ukrainian-armed-forces-fire-mortar-shells-grenades-on-4-lpr-localities-1093099627.html is up!
UPDATE2: a reminder for good alternative information sources:
You can get your official Russian info from here:
- http://en.kremlin.ru/
- https://mid.ru/en/
- https://eng.mil.ru/en/index.htm
- https://mid-dnr.su/en/
- https://lug-info.com/en
For the basic facts, go to these websites:
- https://tass.com/
- https://www.presstv.ir/
- https://www.tehrantimes.com/
- https://en.isna.ir/
- https://english.almanar.com.lb/
- https://www.cgtn.com/
- https://www.globaltimes.cn/index.html
- https://en.granma.cu/
- http://www.avn.info.ve/english
- https://www.telesurenglish.net/
For commentary and analysis, I recommend these two:
for the best website security please seek example from Jim Stone and his ideas of registering individual IP addresses (he has two servers: one in Island 82.221.129.208/, the second in Texas 198.46.190.126).
no cloud services (no cloudflare errors)
no https
let readers know direct ip addresses (no dns errors)
keep publishing as objective information and educated opinions are of enormous value these days
it is my understanding that a single IP fixed address would be the easiest to DDoS.
yes, and the defense is usually organized on the ISP side then
please ask one of your admins to contact Jim for details
direct address is the most difficult to hide from the world
with direct IP the readers need to learn the address early to avoid surprises
May I reiterate my earlier comments! Jim Stone is CIA/MI6 disinformation.
it is time to use a VPN and bypass all this nonsense. there are many excellent ones but make sure you avoid those that are FREE. go this route and attempted blocking becomes irrelevant
the best are small in cost but worth it.
This is absolutely false. VPNs do not allow to access DDoSed website
Sorry
Andrei
““Russian” websites in/from the LDNR are being disconnected by US IT giants.
The Russian Foreign Ministry seems to be under DDoS attack.”
This suggests that the Empire is up to something – and given the track record, we know that can’t be good.
Imminent false flag coming, maybe?
MOD’s web presentation restored functionality.
Not the MOD (defense) https://mil.ru/
the MFO (Foreign Affairs) https://www.mid.ru/
but yes,
I just saw it get back up right now.
Let’s see if it hold
Thank you
Sorry, mistyped.
Do you have thought about a TOR version of this Website?
No
Is it hard to make one?
Andrei
cant tell how hard it would be, never used one. But even TOR it is still a single IP/point of access. so it would be vulnerable.
I wreck my brain rn to remember a technic i thought that exist and that could decentralized the whole Website so a DDoS nor a “cancellation” could have any effect. like a P2P network Website version.
TOR is good if you want to hide from your ISP. Which is usually a non-issue to begin ..
It is also OK-ish if you want to hide from some non-serious state organizations like Burkina Faso police etc.
It is close to useless when you want to protect against serious gov actors. They have the means to actually use it to flag any “determined” folks. Then you just end up lighting a buyoy above yourself should the #{&@ hit the fan.
Stick to HTTP (to avoid de-certifying attacks), use alternat DNS hosting, have geo/jurisdiction-dispersed servers.
And, the most importnant. Always assume that anything you share/write/recommend online can and will be used against you at some point.
Do not want someone to know? Good. Do not say or write it to anyone anywhere in any form. Not unless you have a pretty good reason/justification to so that makes it worth.
@user: So a kind of decentralized server is the best thing to not be canceled?
Do you remember any kind of open Source Project of decentralised Websites/blogs?
Lbry/odysee is somewhat decentralized but i have no idea to what amount. somethign like this in HTTP form should be good against any kind of DDoS.
Anything that is to be trully resilient will need multiple layers of resiliency.
And by multiple levels, I do not mean only technology. It is not good you can have your site online if your users cannot access it. It is no good if they can access it, but cannot find it.
This is a complex topic, and if you want to know more, you would need a LOT of learning about IT, networks, psychology etc.
For a non-experienced person, the order of priority is:
1) have backups, lots and lots of geographically dispersed independent copies of your data
2) have multiple hosting options, at least some of them should be on ati-thetical platforms, e.g. a server in China with Alibaba, a server in US, a server in Russia a server in India etc.
3) have mutliple ways to talk to your audience and make sure at least one of those ways is push not pull, email lists are ideal for this
9) have multiple ways how to put up your content via DNS or other address translation means
The easiest to silence someone short-term is to make sure the user cannot find one anymore. It is way, way easier than trying to get the servers off of internet. This is done by DNS spoofing, certificate revocation, cloud frontend hosting revocation etc. etc.
But the easiest to silence someone permanently, on the other hand, is to destroy the data. For even if one gets off of from the charges, without the frameworks used to publish, and no content base, it would be night impossible to restart in reasonable time.
My 2 cents.
it was not a theoretical question. i known a bit about the technical side of it so i will try to explain:
A Website can be seen a bundle of Data formatted as a Database like MySQL and your Browser can interpret this in form of HTML CSS etc. deliverd by HTTP.
A Peer to Peer (P2P) network is a Network of similar ranked peers (!) that shares Datablocks, the middle man (so called nodes) can exchange adresses (IP or hashes, depends on conceptual setup) of other peers you can connet to. The Data you trade between those can be anything you want, Video, Executable code, ASCII, ZIP, HTML, CSS, you name it. Those data are normally shared between the peerfs of equal rank (!), some of them only have parts of it (leeches), some of them have the Data complete (seeds). But the Data exist equally distributed through a lot of peers. you need only ONE seed to get all the content, if you only want a specific part of it, not even that.
What is the difference between this and the normal function of the internet you may ask? DNS Servers are the nodes and Server or Desktop PCs are the peers so it’s seem similar.
No its not. A website/blog/Social media network has a major flaw that makes it possible to censor or DDoS or Cancel it, the “content” is in ONE spot (Webserver) OR hast to go Through ONE spot (Delivery server of the network in Social media).
Now the important part:
The newer P2P networks are already able to “stream” videos and you can be quite picky what part of the Video you want to watch if you choose a Player how can handle this.
The idea i mention is now to tread a Website as a big Chunk of Data that is distributed through a lot of peers and if you want you can download the newer parts of it, or if you want, all of it and be a seed of the whole thing.
The Admin can control the content of it through a kind of block chain verification in which only parts that are approved by him get flagged as “valid” by means of a “masterkey”. loosing the master key or give it out to someone else is loosing or at least sharing control over the website content. My understanding was that this kind of verification was also a encryption of the whole Data.
With this, no one, not even the Whole of the US Government, will be able to censor you without shutting down the whole internet. This is what i mean with “decentralized” Websites.
I am quite sure that i heard about such a concept/project before but cant remember it.
A basic outline of the decentralized website and a current list of projects……
https://cryptorials.io/decentralized-internet-make-decentralized-websites-apps/
Clear, what I wanted to say is that true resiliency, the one when even the three letter agencies cannot take you down, cannot be achieved by ANY technical solution. Every technical solution no matter how good, has a weak point in its administrator. If you do not address this, you will never be truly resilient/survivable.
You need separate systems, managed by separate people, at separate places usign separate technology. And you need multiple separate ways to tie it all together.
It is way more important to have multiple as diverse systems managed by as diverse people as possible than having the “perfect” systems.
A bunch of simple RPI servers managed by high school kids using FTP to manually copy-over their content from one another in a semi-chaotic fashion will be literally un-silencable.
That is for resiliency/survivability. The technical solutions you mention are great – they can improve the QUALITY of your distribution. But they do not make your distribution more survivable in any major way. Not against state actors like US. Should they go after you …
@user: if a state actor goes against you physically it is over for you anyway. Look to Julian Assange. What you mentioned i would call “social resilience” and is only achievable by education among citizens, so you are able to draw in more like minded people that will help you to spread the word.
How this would work you can see around the World with “alternative media” popping up everywhere. But in the end the Government can still go against this with pure violence and spinning a “Narrative A story”.
The internet itself is here a Counter tactic against propaganda and isolation of “dissidents” and i think for the saker, that is what he has already archived with his separate, independent “teams” around the world. So the silence Part is not a Thread to him anymore and i am more concerned over the technical side here.
@Whozhear: have my gratitude, this is what i searching for.
you have to know what you want to be protected against:
1) censoring your website or its server/hosting
2) preventing your visitors from accessing your website.
@ 1):
look at TOR, Freenet, NextCloud, OwnCloud, I2P… whatever you choose, make sure somebody with “operational knowledge” sets everything up for you – it`s not a lot of work, but you have to know, how to do it. It should be less than 1-2h work, and less than 100 USD. I`d love to help, but lack decent experience.
@ 2):
VPN (mullvad, should be enough for most cases) or Psiphon
No it is not difficult. The manual in the docs section of torproject.org covers how hidden services work, and how to set it up. However, most Tor exit nodes are currently being blocked by the wordfence security script thesaker.is admin has setup. If the mindset of blocking users from Tor is as it currently is on this site, forget about using a Tor hidden sevice as there will be nothing but Tor users accessing it.
I can access https://mil.ru from west Oz at 2:50am local time.
No English translation though.
Google translate allows access to the link but does not translate into English.
However, the lead story page cannot be accessed.
“Совместное оперативное учение «Союзная решимость-2022»”
Throws up a browser “This site can’t be reached” message.
Other sub pages sem to work ok.
I also follow these Telegram channels:
In English:
https://t.me/IntelSlava/ (Intel Slava)
https://t.me/BellumActaNews/ (Bellum Acta – Intel, Urgent News and Archives)
In Russian:
https://t.me/WarLife/ (ВОЙНА – Россия Украина Донбасс)
https://t.me/infantmilitario/ (Милитарист)
https://t.me/voynareal/ (Реальная Война)
Both websites fully functional as of 14:10 EST (19:10 GMT), all languages working.
https://mil.ru/
https://www.mid.ru/
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Lone Wolf
*hosting services:*
https://www.prq.se/
Ask them how to proceed… they`re (in)famous for fighting until the end to keep your site online.
*messenger groups:*
When setting up a telegram channel / group, please be aware that some EU countries currently mull blocking telegram or at least several telegram channels – and telegram already caved in, blocking some groups.
If using signal, the maximum group size decreases significantly, as seems to decrease the risk to be blocked.
The best messenger service is threema, however max groupsize is 256 per group, unfortunately.
I would like to add TeleGuard along with Threema..
Creio que precisamos pensar fora da caixa na obtenção de informações.
O Telegram, creio, é uma opção.
Não apresenta muitos recursos, eu sei, também pode ser obturado, expõe quem integra.
Colonel Cassad usa esse recurso.
Só uma sugestão.
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Machine translation:
I think we need to think outside the box in getting information.
Telegram, I believe, is an option.
It doesn’t have many resources, I know, it can also be filled, it exposes who integrates it.
Colonel Cassad uses this feature.
just a suggestion
This seems like a PSY OP experiment. Since the decision to invade or not is entirely in Russia’s hands, what is the US doing by constantly predicting dates of an invasion and then being wrong?
Crying wolf tends to turn people into skeptics. Is there a game plan here (eg., unsettle Olaf Scholz and Germany on NS2, replace the flailing Covid narrative, distract from inflation, etc.), or have they all gone Biden?
PSYOP yes, but listening to both sides it’s as if the west needs a war, and Russia will defend itself if all this diplomacy fails. The rest are acronym actors trying to instigate a response.
Call it what you will, “invasion” is not on the table, but rocket strikes on Ukraine and NATO infrastructure is retaliatory military-technical action if the west ignores this new written demands (https://tass.com/politics/1405495)
That said, if Ukraine decides to move on Crimea or Donbass, Russia will respond too. (Then the west wins their propaganda game, like they did with Georgia)
So everybody is afraid of looming war, propagandists say Ukraine is the target, but it is an entirely different kind of war. Destroying NATO assets will spin propagandists to demand the wussy US and UK to respond and then we are pushed to the point of no return. WWIII is here then.
The threat is real without a doubt, but this “invasion” idea is far from the truth.
Better idea to avoid GOOGLE as much as possible..
Use YANDEX which has automatic translation Russian to English of first few paragraphs.
Pretty good with IZVESTIA etc.,
Also YANDEX translation service is all on menu bar at their home page.
Maybe DeepL AI translation is better for technical, military stuff. But limited free service unless you pay subscription.. both YANDEX and DeepL really screw up on the inevitable tricky pronouns.
Doubt they could handle typical double edge flatulence from Blinken, Truss, Norwegian Chihauhau blah-blah…
Also YANDEX email OK.
PanQuake should be good. Like Twitter but can’t be censored because it uses decentralised blockchain tech