I'm shocked that nobody is worried that this lowers the barrier to implementation for other dictatorial governements.
All they need is money. The global IT industry will sell them what they want.
OpenGFW: an open source implementation of China's Great Firewall
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#22Would be funny if this ends up like War Thunder. Some random chinese official making a pull request out of spite because some implementations are not as how the real GFW is doing it.
the gfw was not built by some random "chinese officials", it's powered by the IT industry with contractors all the way down. There isn't a monolith wall either. There are multiple generations of TCP/IP middle boxes sold to various levels of ISP over many years.
Then consider, this one bringing better features of all of them, and some Chinese people send pull requests to refine this even further.
It's not impossible.
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#24My kids are about to learn the consequences of hurting my feelings by calling me a buttface on the internet.
are you going to wear a mask of one of the dudes from star trek and set your phaser to stun?
Re: OpenGFW: an open source implementation of China's Great Firewall
#25Well...it's very suitable for people outside of mainland China to experience what Chinese people experience online.
Nah it's an interesting piece of technology of double-edged sword, like any other technology. A firewall can be used to censor information, but can be also used to block ads or malicious traffic.
It's always "malicious traffic". It is just the definition of "malicious" that varies ;)
Re: OpenGFW: an open source implementation of China's Great Firewall
#26I been seeing people on Twitter mocking the project, but I need it... You have no idea how much time I've wasted trying to block some products from pinging their home server with curious data stream, but failed to do so because I can't be bothered to sit my ass in front of Wireshark to sniff out all their DoH servers. With this project, it's hopeful that in the future I can just not putting their domains in the TLS w…
I've had luck finding pi-hole blocklists on github for various products, if it's something quite common like a branded smart TV someone will have already done the hard work of figuring out what IP's they're trying to dial home to.
Re: OpenGFW: an open source implementation of China's Great Firewall
#27I'm shocked that nobody is worried that this lowers the barrier to implementation for other dictatorial governements.
Ask Apple or Microsoft if they have trouble selling to dictatorial governments
Re: OpenGFW: an open source implementation of China's Great Firewall
#28This project is like an open-source missile for regimes like Iran and North Korea. I do admire it, but some governments could abuse it to suppress freedom.
Re: OpenGFW: an open source implementation of China's Great Firewall
#29This project is like an open-source missile for regimes like Iran and North Korea. I do admire it, but some governments could abuse it to suppress freedom.
Unless your government is technically inept they don't really need this project to have their own GFW and inept government won't be able to maintain it anyway.
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#30The publishing industry will probably now demand using this to block sci-hub and anna archive /s.