Everything you need to know is in this manual.
mrflyingflipflop wroteI use wise and bet365 is down. is there a way to get around the block?
4 days later
geovarta wroteHey guys, Pokerstars and Fulltilt are down for the past two days. A friend of mine called Sodetel and they told him Ogero is blocking gambling sites as requested from ISF. Anyone has any info on this?
Black Friday in Lebanon!
Why would the ISF request such a thing? We have Casino du Liban and video poker parlours, so it doesn't even make sense. Something that doesn't do harm to anyone like online poker shouldn't even be touched. There goes my additional income :(
A very interesting excerpt from blogbaladi details the foul play of the Lebanese government regarding this issue:
blogbaladi wroteI woke up Saturday, June 15 and could not open my Pokerstars client. A few other sites were unreachable either. After contacting my ISP, they informed me that they are blocking access to online poker sites as requested by the ministry of justice.
On Sunday, June 16. Only one site was officially functioning, Starsofholdem. Owned by a Lebanese, hosted in Costa Rica and operated by Stars of Holdem Group @ London – United Kingdom. As the info shows on their website.
I contacted StarsofHoldem support and they assured me that the online restriction in Lebanon will not affect their operations because THEY PAY TAXES TO THE GOVERNMENT!!!!
Anyway, I've managed to bypass the block by subscribing to a VPN that actually offers plans and seems very professional and transparent (as in they don't log your traffic). Private Internet Access VPN is one of the highest rated VPN providers, and their fees aren't expensive. For those who want to resume poker online, you can search for and subscribe to it or to the other highly rated VPN services. Hotspot Shield Elite doesn't work, so I don't recommend it.
Someone mentioned the Lebanese Government building a firewall for censorship, à la Great Firewall of China.
But it seems that ISPs are only blocking sites on request.
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samer wroteEverything you need to know is in this manual.
mrflyingflipflop wroteI use wise and bet365 is down. is there a way to get around the block?
NEVER give out credit card information over free proxy servers.
The End.
hussam wrotehttp://www.888poker.com/ opens fine here on my visp connection. there is a picture of some guy wearing a blue football jersey.
the thread is over a year ago!!
Assuming the user doesn't ignore a certificate warning and that most websites that process credit cards serve their pages over TLS, what would be the issue of using a free proxy or Tor to pay for something?
marid wroteHello!
I just registered to reply to this post:
samer wroteEverything you need to know is in this manual.
mrflyingflipflop wroteI use wise and bet365 is down. is there a way to get around the block?
NEVER give out credit card information over free proxy servers.
The End.
Session hijacking (MITM attack).. At least that's what i know, correct me if i'm wrong please :)
Why did they block these sites? I mean the rationale - if there is any.
marid wroteSession hijacking (MITM attack).. At least that's what i know, correct me if i'm wrong please :)
It is my understanding that a MITM attack would trigger a certificate warning by the user's browser (assuming the server is running the latest version of OpenSSL, and the attacker is not using a 0day).
rolf wroteWhy did they block these sites? I mean the rationale - if there is any.
Decree 6919 of June 29 1995, Casino du Liban was given monopoly over all gambling activities. The law is vague, so it allows our law enforcement agencies to include Internet gambling.
m_zeid wrote
hussam wrotehttp://www.888poker.com/ opens fine here on my visp connection. there is a picture of some guy wearing a blue football jersey.
the thread is over a year ago!!
oops. sorry. i saw a new reply and neglected looking at the date of previous posts.
"mobile.bet365.com"

Try the mobile site it works for me on all connectionss..

Good luck :)
Ramii wrote"mobile.bet365.com"

Try the mobile site it works for me on all connectionss..

Good luck :)
it doesn't on Cyberia Connection
For Ogero users(and other ISP users possibly) try opening the sites with https:// , it should open(did for me atleast)

edit: some things open, but you gotta set everything to open on https for everything to work

I still remember when my university's WiFi used to block some sites and to bypass them you only had to open the sites with https instead of http, didn't think it would actually work in this case lol