Pakistan's Internet providers have been asked to prevent anonymous
traffic over VPN connections. The state telecommunications regulator,
the PTA had access provider in a letter addressed to "security reasons,
the use of mechanisms such as encrypted VPNs prevent, prevent the
interception of traffic." The Indian website Medianama published on
Tuesday a list of all servers to block access.
A spokesman for the authority told the Pakistani daily newspaper Tribune
(Monday edition), the action should terrorists be prevented from
anonymous exchange on the Internet. He admitted however that this only
by a blanket blocking of VPNs for all Internet users is possible. In
Pakistan, in addition to VPN servers, increasingly, websites blocked, so
is possible in Pakistan since July is no access onto U.S. culture
magazine Rolling Stone more. This is due to information from the Tribune
ran a short blog post, in which the high military spending in Pakistan
to be criticized.
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