Maybe TOR? https://www.torproject.org/
Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
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#362Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
#363Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mr. Kafka, suspicion is healthy. However, abstraction provides no way forward when faced with practicalities instead of theory. Creates a Kafka-esque situation - anything suitable is by definition unsuitable. Better to focus on practical technical advice.
I think you might want to read about the Anom phone [0], supposedly encrypting messages for drug dealers to avoid law enforcement, which was actually sold by... the FBI. [0]: https://www.inc.com/jennifer-conrad/the-fbi-created-its-own-...
Sir Night: may I ask, what should it mean to me that some businesses are fronts?
I hope I do not present the presence of a dullard unfamiliar with this.
Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
#364Probably just an unfortunate timing. Cloudflare is going down in this region [1] at the same time with the protests and unrest caused by the news of a motorcycle taxi driver who got run over by a swat car during a protest [2].
Such coincidence might seems like the government trying to do some damage control by restricting internet access, but I hope that's not what happen here. At the moment, cloudflare status for Jakarta is still "rerouted".
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#365Weird. I'm in Indonesia and can access VPNs, X and Discord.
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#366You can also setup your own, get a VM in the free world and setup an open VPN server. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...
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#367An alternative is using an eSIM with an “internet breakout” via another country.
Esimdb is a good place to start.
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#368You've come to a wrong place to ask. Most people here (judging by recommendations of own VPN instances, Tor, Tailscale/other Wireguard-based VPNs, and Mullvad) don't have any experience with censorship circumvention. Just look for any VPNs that are advertised specifically for China, Russia, or Iran. These are the cutting edge tech, they may not be so privacy-friendly as Mullvad, but they will certainly work.
Hmm. People who recommend widely used approaches, and well-known, well-established providers, "don't have any experience with cenorship circumvention". So the solution is no-name providers using random ad-hoc hackery, chosen according to a criterion more or less custom designed to lead you into watering hole attacks. Right.
It's very sad that every sane and informed comment (like reisse's) has to meet this kind of snarky comment whose only purpose is being snarky on HN.
Perhaps you should stop and think about why people living in countries where governments actually censor a lot hardly use these "well-established providers" to circumvent censorship. Tip: it's not because they're stupid.
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#369Can you try both WireGuard and MASQUE? you can do that by using `warp-cli tunnel protocol set MASQUE'. if you want to try WireGuard, `warp-cli tunnel protocol set WireGuard'
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#370Hello! 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…
This is no 'nothing special' with Obfs4proxy. DPI sees it as random byte stream, thus your government can decide to block unknown protocols. Instead, you should trick DPI into thinking it sees HTTPS. Unless your government decides to block HTTPS.
The only VPN technology I see that blends as HTTPS is MASQUE IP Proxying, and the only implementation I know that does this is iCloud Private Relay. It is also trivial to block because blocking 443/udp doesn't really affect accessing the Internet.