[Qatar-pm] What material does Qtel block?

[Kutch]

> Yes. It would be madness from a business perspective to block port 22.
> No one would have a secure route out of the country. I guess if
> tunneling became a widespread method and someone complained it would
> be blocked too.

I don't think so... Impossible if they block port 22 if they do, that will  
be a hell of madness!

Well if port 22 is gone there is still options to do VPN! (weheeee)

I really disagree with they blocking within the GCC countries it feels  
like you have limited resources. It is nice only for individuals of they  
have kids or conservative family.... Ok ok qhell can do a reverse method  
they can add it in their services as 'Site filtering enabled - free of  
charge' They the rest of the population can use the unlimited resources.  
[it is just meh! just thinking for a better as a resident of qatar :D ]


On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:54:26 +0300, Nigel Gourlay <nigel at qatarjournal.com>  
wrote:

>> www.thepiratebay.com <- Torrent Search Engine
>> www.metacafe.com <- Media Sharing same with YouTube
>> www.qhell.com :))
>
> None are blocked. The filter seems pretty good at blocking porn
> (probably using SmartFilter's list), but the other sites it blocks are
> pretty random. I think that Qtel just responds to angry emails, rather
> than searching out sites.
>
>> Thanks SSH I can access everything with out any pain-in-the-ass by Q  
>> Hell!
>
> Yes. It would be madness from a business perspective to block port 22.
> No one would have a secure route out of the country. I guess if
> tunneling became a widespread method and someone complained it would
> be blocked too.
>
> The same goes for the ports used by peer-to-peer software, although of
> course a few of the clients use tricks to avoid being blocked. It
> seems weird that you would block a popular torrent search engine, but
> not bittorrent itself.
>
> Qtel could easily block all ports apart from those being filtered, but
> they don't. Amongst those I've asked, most people think that filtering
> porn is a good idea. Even Europeans have told me that they think these
> sorts of filters should exist in their home countries, which seems to
> suggest that most people don't find the filter annoying. I do.
>
> --nigel



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