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Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by SanjayMehta »

Anyone can approach any state high court and get an order to block any website in India. The ISPs will block immediately and then the victims have to work the court system to get unblocked.

Videolan (VLC) was blocked for months. I don't know if the block was ever actually lifted as we use dnscryptd on our networks.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by jMyles »

themitigating wrote: post #5
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…

How about standing up to the people who implemented the ban and their supporters. I don't understand why we are working around oppression.

It seems to me that modifying the world so that the oppressive policy becomes irrelevant is always preferable.

And when that's not possible, heck yeah, stand up to power with truth in hand.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by josephcsible »

netheril96 wrote: post #42
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.

Hence the "no fallback" point. Bad guys can always block entire IPs, and by not having a fallback to insecure SNI, that's their only choice.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by howinteresting »

themitigating wrote: post #16
saghm wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technical workarounds and social activism aren't mutually exclusive; given how long the latter can take to achieve results, it's often useful to have the former in the meantime.

By bypassing the block you lessen the need for social activism

So much the worse for social activism then.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by melvyn2 »

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…

OP claims it’s SNI based and not DNS based, so switching DNS providers likely won’t do anything.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by jrochkind1 »

javajosh wrote: post #32
jrochkind1 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm not a big fan of jargon either, but if you clicked on one of those links, you'd see that it stands for DNS over HTTP or DNS over Tor.

Not sure what you mean, I clicked on the first link before commenting, for "GoodbyeDPI", and learned that it was a "Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows)", I still didn't know what DoT or DoH was, sorry.

Most Android phones... have DNS over Tor... built in? This can't be, can it? I'm pretty confused.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by humanistbot »

yunohn wrote: post #43
sanghi_mama wrote: post #40

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

Most people in "the IT industry" are not coders and do not need github, a code repository, or even the most basic understanding of coding in order to do their jobs. Install a satellite dish? You're an IT worker. Do customer service for a telecom? You're an IT worker. Swap out failing hard drives in a server farm? You're an IT worker.

The impact of github being down is large, but it isn't going to take out 7-10% of India's GDP.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is partially blocked in India

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Post by hhjinks »

karatinversion wrote: post #11
prcrstntr wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah works fine on my ISP

That is what “de jure, not de facto” means - the ban is in place, but widely ignored and unenforced

Not "not de facto," "if not de facto." Definitely not de facto if some ISPs don't block it.
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