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How Is Russia Blocking Calls on WhatsApp/Telegram/Face Time/Snapchat/?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/whatsapp-complains-about-restrictions-russia-after-reported-slowdown-2025-12-23/
4•urcite_ty_kokos•2h ago

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urcite_ty_kokos•2h ago
Hi, I was wondering how is it technically possible for Russia firewalls to block calls over these platforms, while keeping chat messages working? Thanks

My guess is that it is because of a different layer 7 protocol than HTTP is used for calls, and the code of the protocol leaks in the TLS/SSL header. Is this guess correct?

doc_doom•2h ago
Ngl same question for United Arab Emirates
belter•56m ago
Its DPI mostly from this company: https://theins.ru/en/politics/265749
urcite_ty_kokos•17m ago
Time to learn more on DPI, thanks.
belter•2m ago
If you to explore and make some tests of your own, nDPI is the most popular open-source DPI engine.

https://github.com/ntop/nDPI

https://youtu.be/NndEp7__Y1A

wkat4242•16m ago
It won't be the only solution that can do this by the way. Many airplane WiFi services block WhatsApp and telegram calls.

I think they just look at the traffic shape. Real-time traffic requires a lot of constant similar sized traffic per second, rather than texting or images which is much more bursty.

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