Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions
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#2These are my favorite kind of projects.
Re: Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions
#3Had this exact same idea on my last flight! If Telegram is an approved messenger you could also create a pretty unrestricted bot there too. Very cool.
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#4nice! next up: encapsulate ip to provide full networking (with terrible latency)
also just in case someone is wondering, a more ergonomic solution specifically for reading wikipedia on a plane is https://kiwix.org
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#5cool hack
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#6Wait, is this filtering based on IP or DNS? How do they make sure their whitelist remains up to date? (I assume it's HTTPS, so those are basically the only two options...)
If it's DNS based, there should be simpler workarounds, so I guess it's just IP based?
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#7I wonder if anyone has stated a general law along the lines of "if you can send and receive a bit, you can send and receive anything."
The only issues ended up being that 1) WhatsApp messages are limited to 1600 characters
Concidentally, that's not much bigger than the MTU of standard Ethernet. I don't know how "transparent" the data channel is with respect to non-ASCII (and probably Unicode), but if you use one of the various binary-to-text encodings that exist, you could probably implement Ethernet over WhatsApp. ;-)
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#8I think about creating this project every time I'm on a Delta flight, great to see someone actually did it.
Re: Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions
#9I wonder if anyone has stated a general law along the lines of "if you can send and receive a bit, you can send and receive anything." The only issues ended up being that 1) WhatsApp messages are limited to 1600 characters Concidentally, that's not much bigger than the MTU of standard Ethernet. I don't know how "transparent" the data channel is with respect to non-ASCII (and probably Unicode), but if you use one of t…
> I wonder if anyone has stated a general law along the lines of "if you can send and receive a bit, you can send and receive anything."
In my country we have a telecom service provider law, which states, among other things:
ARTICLE 57. - Network neutrality. Prohibitions. Service Providers shall not:
a) Block, interfere, discriminate, hinder, degrade or restrict the use, sending, reception, offering or access to any content, application, service or protocol except by court order or explicit request of the user.
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#10Many years ago (2012) Delta inflight wifi would allow DNS queries out without paying. Being a very frequent flyer I used to run an ip-over-dns tunnel using Iodine[1]. It was slow but worked. I wonder if they’ve blocked that hole yet.