<story><title>Russia blocks ProtonMail</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/russia-blocks-protonmail/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>PeterZhizhin</author><text>This situation really pissed me off. FSB (Russian FBI) had problems with receiving bomb threats coming from Protonmail addresses. So, they secretly ordered (with an almost classified order) major ISPs to block Protonmail bypassing Russian&amp;#x27;s existing website&amp;#x2F;IP addresses blocking scheme.&lt;p&gt;Even worse, they ordered to __BLACKHOLE__ traffic coming to Protonmail. It means that ISPs were ordered to silently drop all traffic coming to Protonmail addresses. This raises problems not only for Russians, but for potentially for other countries as well.
So, for example, someone connects from Japan to Protonmail (server is located in Europe, for instance). So, if traffic decides to go through Russian channels, for a client in Japan it will be just like Protonmail is not just responding because a Russian ISP in the chain silently drops traffic.&lt;p&gt;Again. I want to repeat this once again. FSB had problems receiving bomb threats to their addresses. Instead of configuring their mail servers to ignore Protonmail incoming mail, they ordered major ISPs in Russia to block Protonmail for EVERYONE in the country. That&amp;#x27;s so dumb.&lt;p&gt;Moreover, another recent leak coming from another Russian ISP indicates that FSB also ordered to block sending and receiving mail for certain mail addresses regardless of their domain. They ordered an ISP to block Email for certain addresses. Like, they ordered to ban all Email going from&amp;#x2F;coming to Emails starting with &amp;quot;putin666&amp;quot;, like putin666@protonmail.com, puting666@gmail.com, puting666@example.com, any email coming from an email staring with &amp;quot;putin666&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s so dumb, oh god. They cannot configure their mail servers, but they have power to threat ISPs to ban Email for the entire country.</text></comment>
<story><title>Russia blocks ProtonMail</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/russia-blocks-protonmail/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SUr3na</author><text>I switched to protonmail after losing my gmail password.It was literally impossible to get my account back thanks to gmail &amp;quot;security features&amp;quot;. The 500mb free plan is enough for personal usage. I hope other 3rd world countries don&amp;#x27;t block it following Russia.interestingly this happened not long after EU €2 million award.Probably someone read the news and googled protonmail, saw &amp;quot;encrypted email&amp;quot; in Wikipedia page and decided to block the whole thing.</text></comment>