[rafram]

> your government can decide to block unknown protocols

Has any government ever done that? Seems like it would just break everything (because the world is full of devices that use custom protocols!) at great computational expense.

[thenthenthen]

China blocked https last week: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/ch...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44958621

[rafram]

They blanket blocked connections to port 443 for an hour. There was no protocol sniffing.

[ivanstepanovftw]

Russia tested this in production by blocking Shadowsocks https://habr.com/ru/news/770840/