https://getoutline.org/ is based on shadowsocks I think, and comes in an easy to deploy package.
Tell HN: The Internet situation inside Iran
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#12the servers inside Iranian data centers still have access to the outside world. Knowing that, the simplest and easiest solution that would avoid detection is to SSH tunnel into that datacenter and SSH-ProxyForward out of that datacenter into Amazon AWS via SSH and use that SSH proxy chain as a SOCKS proxy for browsers. Make sure the browser is using the SOCKS proxy (SSH) for its DNS. Many sites will make your friends…
I worked at a place with very restrictive internet policies. My team had access to one aws instance that could get out to the open internet.
So my connections looked like this:my laptop at work in California, tunnel to aws in Virginia, tunnel back to a server at my house in California, connect to actual desired site likely hosted on aws in Virginia yet again.
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#13Here's how to create a Signal proxy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf-mtjEF4t0
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree, but if you're never going to step foot in Iran and have no contacts there then I don't see why not.
Actually that’s a selfish way to look at it. You’re putting other peoples lives at risk inside the country. Anyone could easily decide to contribute compromised and malware infected VPN or TOR servers that will in actuality log traffic.
They are literally asking for help.
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#15I'm an Iranian living in the US and I have family in Iran. The internet is completely shut off for two weeks and international phone calling also doesn't work. All I can do is pray at this point.
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#16I would recommend trying to set up tailscale[0] in the servers instead of a VPN, its similar to the reply about SSH ProxyForwarding but it has a lot more tricks under the hood. Of course you need somewhere (aka an AWS server in eg. europe) to connect to.
Also have a look at their blog post about NAT traversal for some potential inspiration: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
Good luck out there! I'll have a look at your github repo now.
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#17Please if you're having trouble setting up Shadowsocks consider using Outline (getoutline.org) asl19.org and their Telegram bot for generating Outline access keys. This team has put in years of effort to make Shadowsocks usable by regular people
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#18https://getoutline.org/ is based on shadowsocks I think, and comes in an easy to deploy package.
It is indeed Shadowsocks (I used to be affiliated with that team)
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#19Just my opinion but I think that non-interventionism should be promoted here. Especially when it comes to political situations like this. It’s a dangerous game.
"Of course, you know of the Prime Directive, which tells us that we have no right to interfere with the natural evolution of alien worlds. Now I have sworn to uphold it, but nevertheless I have disregarded that directive on more than one occasion because I thought it was the right thing to do. Now, if you are holding on to some temporal equivalent of that directive, then isn't it possible that you have an occasion here to make an exception, to help me to choose, because it's the right thing to do?"
Jean-Luc Picard
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#20Just my opinion but I think that non-interventionism should be promoted here. Especially when it comes to political situations like this. It’s a dangerous game.
I think non-interventionism is a good choice for governments that are addicted to foreign adventurism.
I think non-interventionism is a bad choice for individuals with the power to help people under repressive regimes communicate with the outside world.