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Turkey The heights of using tools that bypass the block on Twitter

Huge renown knows the neighboring country the tools that allow its members Twitter to bypass the block at Twitter and gain access to social .

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It is indicative that one of these tools, the Tor software that anonymizes the electronic addresses of computers and "smart" devices, saw its use almost double in within just a few 24 hours after the social networking platform was "silenced". Thus, connections through Tor from the other side of the Aegean had reached 40.000 until yesterday, from 24.000 before the ban was implemented.

Although effective, Tor is considered a relatively technically complex solution to bypass the "barrier" that Turkish providers have activated, ordered by the central telecommunications authority. Therefore, more users seem to be turning to the solution of virtual private networks (VPN), through which the "traces" of the Internet are "camouflaged" s, which seems to come from another country.

According to technology site Ars Technica, VPN applications for "smart" Android and iOS are experiencing an explosive spread in Turkey, with the result that several of them are now included in the list of applications with the most installations, both in the online store of Apple and that of Google. A case in point is VPN app Hotspot Shield, whose usage jumped 33.000% in just 24 hours.

However, during the weekend, the Turkish government found "antidote" in a fairly simple method, which seems to have evaded several users by changing their router settings to connect to Google's public and free DNS servers (and from there on Twitter ), and not on the blocked DNS servers of their providers in Turkey. A solution that no longer works, as Twitter is now blocked at IP level.

This move makes some analysts predict that Turkey will soon be able to send and receive Tweet via simple SMS - a feature proposed by Twitter itself through its official account to its members in Turkey so they can continue to use social network, and which, at least for the time being, still works.

Even if there is this development, however, experts argue that, thanks to the remaining tools, it is technically impossible for the Turkish government to cut off users from the social network. That is why they believe that, instead of a show of fists, the decision to "uproot Twitter" may end in a resounding failure for Erdogan.

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