Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by jeroenhd » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:53 PM UTC

jrochkind1 wrote: post #30

Ayesh wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> On Android: Most phones nowadays should have DoT support built-in nowadays.

I don't know what "DoH" or "DoT" are.

DNS over TLS.

Android calls it "Secure DNS". It's in the connection settings, I believe starting from Android 9 or 10.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by netheril96 » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:55 PM UTC

josephcsible wrote: post #22

> ACT is using SNI-sniffing to block raw.githubusercontent, unlike most other blocks, which are DNS based. This is why TLS ECH can't come soon enough, and why there should be no fallback if the browser and server both support it.

Here in China the GFW block any traffic with encrypted SNI.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by yunohn » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 3:57 PM UTC

sanghi_mama wrote: post #40

yunohn wrote: post #28

The insane irony of this given the sheer number of Indians working in software/IT and using GitHub and contributing to India’s GDP. You’d think that the Gov/ISP/Courts, somebody would put GitHub on a Do-Not-Block list and stop this madness.

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I wouldn’t say 7-10% of GDP is nothing - https://www.gavstech.com/contribution-of-the-it-industry-in-....

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by miohtama » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:02 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #21

themitigating wrote: post #17

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Go after the supporters of the people who implemented the ban.

There's probably quite a lot of them. Modi-style authoritarianism is extremely popular in India.

Unfortunately yes. Every democratic country deserves the government they get. However, in the case of India, it seems that it is slowly sliding towards authoritarianism and maybe soon Modi and co. can elect themselves without asking the people. Though India is not alone with this and it is happening in multiple countries. Usually the end of credible opposition, being crushed, marks the beginning of the end, like we have seen with Russia and Belarus.

Here are some red flags from India:

https://scroll.in/article/1027566/opinion-indian-democracy-i...

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by sanghi_mama » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:02 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #21

themitigating wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go after the supporters of the people who implemented the ban.

There's probably quite a lot of them. Modi-style authoritarianism is extremely popular in India.

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Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:04 PM UTC

unmole wrote: post #38

eatonphil wrote: post #4

Hasn't GitHub been de jure, if not de facto, banned in India since 2014? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#India

No. The ban was lifted in a matter of days.

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Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by sanghi_mama » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:04 PM UTC

jhoelzel wrote: post #2

uff. I cant even imagine what loosing github would mean to an economy and hope you will be back on track soon.

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Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by hexagonwin » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:05 PM UTC

ignoramous wrote: post #3

For folks looking to bypass these rudimentary DPI blocks, you don't really need a VPN. DoH + one of these should be enough On Windows: - GoodbyeDPI: https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI ( https://ntc.party/c/community-software/goodbyedpi/8 ) On Mac / Linux: - GreenTunnel: https://github.com/SadeghHayeri/GreenTunnel ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/green-tunnel ) On Android: - Intra: https://github.com/jigsaw-code/in…

Is there a way to run one of these on the router level, using something like OpenWrt? DoH already works really well.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by coliveira » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:11 PM UTC

The best thing to do is to create a national git service and make copies of the important git repos, to avoid this problem.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by coliveira » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 4:14 PM UTC

The fact that people rely on GitHub, even when it is based on git, which is free and distributed software, shows how easy it is for big companies to force users into their closed software.