I frequently use McDonalds restaurant to use WiFi. I can not afford internet at home.
McDonalds WiFi is managed by AT&T. I find the TorProject and VeraCrypt (and Veracrypts download page never return a webpage. I already have the TOR Browser on my computer, and it finds the TorProject website, and Veracrypt website.
I presume they are being blocked, as it seems everything else works. Apparently no one told them about the 'riseup' website.
I have heard that China blocks the TorProjects website, but this was supposed to be the land of the free.
I don't think I want them to realize all the things that still work, else they might start blocking them.
TOR website blocked inside the US
Try a different browser and search engine.
Plus you are in MacDonalds.
What are you thinking?
https://www.torproject.org/download/dow ... sy.html.en
https://www.torproject.org/
https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=veracrypt
Chris.
Plus you are in MacDonalds.
What are you thinking?
https://www.torproject.org/download/dow ... sy.html.en
https://www.torproject.org/
https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=veracrypt
Chris.
I must have miss understood the point.
Clearly it is not the just the browser or search engine. OR which OS one uses. I tried all those options. Well I can still use TOR, if already downloaded and installed. I would guess I can still use a VPN.
So any internet provider has the prerogative to block whatever content that might allow for whistle blowers to report on wrong doing. People to report on what is happening inside dictatorships?
but it is still OK for McDs to do it, because TOR or other software is still available.
Carried to its logical, silly conclusion. I see two people meeting in a dark parking garage in the middle of the night for one to provide a USB key of software. Or perhaps to throw a USB key from one car window to another car at a stop light.
Then I guess that is closer to what happens in China, and some other places.
So any internet provider has the prerogative to block whatever content that might allow for whistle blowers to report on wrong doing. People to report on what is happening inside dictatorships?
but it is still OK for McDs to do it, because TOR or other software is still available.
Carried to its logical, silly conclusion. I see two people meeting in a dark parking garage in the middle of the night for one to provide a USB key of software. Or perhaps to throw a USB key from one car window to another car at a stop light.
Then I guess that is closer to what happens in China, and some other places.
You're probably overthinking this. McDonald's as a wifi provider wouldn't want to support anything dodgy, so they'd block access to a dodgy site to stop that. TOR is widely known as an illegal browser, for trading on the dark web / silk road whatever. So, they'd just block access to the TOR website. You probably couldn't get to pornhub, piratebay or other less than ethical / family friendy type websites.
Re: I must have miss understood the point.
Of course it is...you are GUEST in their space. It's their space and they set the rules. You can easily vote with your feet...go somewhere else for free wifi.purple379 wrote: but it is still OK for McDs to do it, because TOR or other software is still available.