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Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

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Post by Flere-Imsaho »

doix wrote: post #24

I'm currently traveling in Uzbekistan and am surprised that wireguard as a protocol is just blocked. I use wireguard with my own server, because usually governments just block well known VPN providers and a small individual server is fine. It's the first time I've encountered where the entire protocol is just blocked. Worth checking what is blocked and how before deciding which VPN provider to use.

> surprised that wireguard as a protocol is just blocked.

Honestly this is the route I'm sure the UK will decide upon in the not too distant future.

The job of us hackers is going to become even more important...

Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

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Post by tiahura »

kragen wrote: post #115
reisse wrote: post #67

You've come to a wrong place to ask. Most people here (judging by recommendations of own VPN instances, Tor, Tailscale/other Wireguard-based VPNs, and Mullvad) don't have any experience with censorship circumvention. Just look for any VPNs that are advertised specifically for China, Russia, or Iran. These are the cutting edge tech, they may not be so privacy-friendly as Mullvad, but they will certainly work.

VPNs that are advertised are for-profit products, which means: 1. They are in most cases run by national spy agencies. 2. They will at least appear to work, i.e. , they will provide you with access to websites that are blocked by the country you are in. Depending on which country's spies run the system, they may actually work in the sense of hiding your traffic from that country's spies, or they may mark you as a spe…

For 99% of use cases - piracy and porn, does that matter?

Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

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Post by database64128 »

You could use something like https://github.com/database64128/swgp-go to obfuscate WireGuard traffic.

Using full-blown VPNs under such environments has the disadvantage of affecting your use of domestic web services. You might want to try something like https://github.com/database64128/shadowsocks-go, which allows you to route traffic based on domain and IP geolocation rules.

Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

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Post by tomaskafka »

reisse wrote: post #67

You've come to a wrong place to ask. Most people here (judging by recommendations of own VPN instances, Tor, Tailscale/other Wireguard-based VPNs, and Mullvad) don't have any experience with censorship circumvention. Just look for any VPNs that are advertised specifically for China, Russia, or Iran. These are the cutting edge tech, they may not be so privacy-friendly as Mullvad, but they will certainly work.

> Just look for any VPNs that are advertised specifically for China, Russia, or Iran.

If I was working for a secret service for these countries, I would set up many "VPNs that are advertised specifically for x" as honeypots to gather data about any dissidents.

Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

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Post by wsintra2022 »

Jigsy wrote: post #45

I was wondering something like this but in a different capacity. What with certain countries (they know who they are) and their hatred for encryption, it got me wondering how people would communicate securely if - for example - Signal/WhatsApp/etc. pulled out and the country wound up disconnecting the submarine cables to "keep $MORAL_PANIC_OF_THE_DAY safe." How would people communicate securely and privately in a dom…

Encrypted hand written notes tied to pigeons

Re: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

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Post by azalemeth »

_verandaguy wrote: post #97

Hello! I've got experience working on censorship circumvention for a major VPN provider (in the early 2020s). - First things first, you have to get your hands on actual VPN software and configs. Many providers who are aware of VPN censorship and cater to these locales distribute their VPNs through hard-to-block channels and in obfuscated packages. S3 is a popular option but by no means the only one, and some VPN prov…

Thank you very much for a detailed answer. Might I rudely ask -- as you're knowledgeable in this space, what do you think of Mullvad's DAITA, which specifically aims to defeat traffic analysis by moving to a more pulsed constant bandwidth model?
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