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I read that as a euphemism for piracy.
Pirating Linux ISOs is legal, though.
It's not actually Linux ISOs that they're pirating.
Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
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I would have laughed in your face if you wrote this comment merely 6 months ago. Now I'm just depressed. (UK)
When ES leaked his info to the Guardian people, they could still (2013) use the Guardian's US base to publish, protected by the US' stronger freedom of speech laws. Now, in 2025, if the same were to happen again, I'm not sure that would work quite the same way, with Trump aggressively taking American citizens' rights away. Maybe The Guardian should open a branch in Sealand...
sorry but we are not like Europe, yes the US is backsliding but the notion that the Guardian would be blocked from publishing any article is absurd on face
Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
#703I'm in also indonesia and nordvpn is still working fine for me, but you may want to consider trying socks5 via ssh as others are suggesting.
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Tunneling via SSH (ssh -D) is super easy to detect. The government doesn't need any sophisticated analysis to tell SSH connections for tunneling from SSH connections where a human is typing into a terminal. Countries like China have blocked SSH-based tunneling for years. It can also block sessions based on packet sizes: a typical web browsing session involves a short HTTP request and a long HTTP response, during whic…
>Tunneling via SSH (ssh -D) is super easy to detect. Mind elaborating on a how level how they'd distinguish? Just volume of it?
More like ML classification based on packet sizes and time deltas.
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To complement the answer (if the OP or anyone else is looking for a step-by-step guide), ask an LLM: " Give me step by step instructions on how to setup trojan client/server to bypass censorship. Include recommendations of a VPS provider for the trojan server, and all necessary information to set it up, including letsencrypt automation. Don't link to any installer scripts, just give me all the commands I need to type…
ChatGPT: "Your request was flagged as potentially violating our usage policy. Please try again with a different prompt."
Also possibly reported: https://futurism.com/openai-scanning-conversations-police
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> First things first, you have to get your hands on actual VPN software and configs. It would be nice if one of the big shortwave operators could datacast these packages to the world as a public service.
There isn't enough bandwidth in HF to transmit data. Digital HF audio is 20 kHz wide so maybe 50kbps. The entire HF band is only 3-30 MHz.
I’m not familiar with any HF comms channels other than military or broadcasting that get 20 kHz of bandwidth. Most HF modes get 3 kHz. You might be able to get 5 kbps at 3 kHz BW with some modern modes that can adapt to the frequency selective non stationary channel.
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Thanks for this, UK citizen/subject here I believe the UK government is likely to go down the path of banning vpns.
Can someone competent pull together a manual to set a vpn with obfuscation? I am sure it will be well received. A github repo would be ideal really
Not competent, but a VPN user. Mullvad has some obfuscation features built-in. They also got good documentation/guides, I think.
https://mullvad.net/en/help?Feature=censorship-circumvention
https://web.archive.org/web/20250807131341/https://mullvad.n...