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Blocking Twitter is a good start, now Facebook, Instagram, Whatsup and TikTok. This is a good start but more should be blocked. Then force ISP to block ads. Not just for Indonesia but all countries. But we still have a lot more to do to fix the web.
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I have a little, maybe enough to be dangerous. SSH won’t be sufficient to avoid all traffic analysis. Everyone can see how much traffic and the pattern of that traffic, which can leak info about the sort of things you’re doing. If you’re worried about ending up on a list, using things that look like VPNs while the VPNs are locked down is likely to do so. Also… your neighbors in Myanmar didn’t do a lockdown during the…
>Also… your neighbors in Myanmar didn’t do a lockdown during the genocide and things got pretty fucking dire as a result The genocide in Myanmar was incited _by_ the government there; giving it more power to censor it's citizens' communications would have done absolutely nothing to help the people being genocided. Genocides don't just suddenly happen; the vast majority of genocide over the past century (including Ind…
At that time I think the government was hands off, let it happen rather than tried to stop it.
Regardless of who was behind the violence, the whole region has thought about what to do in such situations and they aren’t the same answers the West would choose.
XRay / XTLS-Reality / VLESS work rather fine, and is said to be very hard to detect, even in China. I followed [1] to set up my own proxy, which works pretty fine. More config examples may be helpful, e.g. [2]. [1]: https://cscot.pages.dev/2023/03/02/Xray-REALITY-tutorial/ [2]: https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-examples/blob/main/VLESS-TCP-XT...
im curious, isn't ALL of your traffic appearing to be to just one website the most obvious giveaway?
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Normally I would agree with you, but the ability to pull this kind of thing off hinges on there being enough shadows that the Eye doesn't look at for prolonged periods of time. And the overall trajectory of technological advance lately is such that those shadows are rapidly shrinking. First it was the street cameras (and UK is already one of the most enthusiastic adopters in the world). And now comes AI which can aut…
I wouldn’t worry about it. They can barely handle wolf-whistlers let alone pedophile rape gangs consisting of the lowest IQ dregs of our society. I know it’s only painfully stupid people who think the law is stupid, but dodgy Dave down the way tends to fly under the radar. Otherwise there wouldn’t be so many of them.
The moment your dodgy Dave offends your local cadre, even for reasons entirely other than being dodgy, they'll throw the book at him. And because there is now unpredictability around who will be arrested and for what reason, it acts as a chilling effect for everyone who values some degree of stability in their lives. So the arc of dodgy Daves bends toward compliance.
It seems to me that using WireGuard (UDP) in conjunction with something like Raptor Forward Error Correction would be somewhat difficult to block. A client could send to and receive from a wide array of endpoints without ever establishing a session and communicate privately and reliably, is that correct?
Hello! I've got experience working on censorship circumvention for a major VPN provider (in the early 2020s). - First things first, you have to get your hands on actual VPN software and configs. Many providers who are aware of VPN censorship and cater to these locales distribute their VPNs through hard-to-block channels and in obfuscated packages. S3 is a popular option but by no means the only one, and some VPN prov…
Thank you very much for a detailed answer. Might I rudely ask -- as you're knowledgeable in this space, what do you think of Mullvad's DAITA, which specifically aims to defeat traffic analysis by moving to a more pulsed constant bandwidth model?
Yes, it's hard work. Yes, it will take a long time. Yes, you personally may not get very far with your efforts.
But if Indonesians don't take responsibility for and work to improve Indonesia then the rest of it doesn't matter.
I've used this on multiple trips to China over the past decade (including a trip last year). You can find carriers that will charge very low (or even no) roaming rates.
Just curious: Anyone know if things like Starlink are viable?