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Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat

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Re: Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat

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I once read a story about tunneling IP over DNS. Something about free Internet/DNS for Microsoft-Update. But I can't find it.

You are thinking of iodine. http://code.kryo.se/iodine/

No, what I read was from the 90s. But the guy probably did what iodine does.

Re: Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat

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With a built-in encryption layer (on top of eventual HTTPS) it could be a useful "hack" for the kinds of situations mentioned in the readme. I wonder how facebook and the telecos will feel about this. All in all, a cool concept but unlikely to work in practice if either facebook or the telecos do not want to.

Re: Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat

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I was just reading about gumbo parser yesterday! h/t @nostrademons Very nice hack... its just fun to do something like this. Reminds me when I used to fiddle w/ "phreaking" when it was really easy. I didn't think about ethical implications - just got a really big thrill when I got a free call.

Thanks! I'm glad to see it used for things...when I wrote it (and decided to open-source it), it was very much a "Well, I have one immediate need for this, but it seems like people could do a lot with a robust HTML5 parser with a simple API."

Re: Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat

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I've been wondering if something like this could be helpful to breach the great firewall. Find some high traffic site in China and smuggle in content via various site features such as chat, messaging, forums, etc. The content could be obfuscated to appear benign while embedding hidden data in text, images, or binary attachments.

I don't know the specifics about how the surveilance is implemented, but embedding encrypted payload in benign files is a neat idea to bypass internet censorship, at least in principle.

Re: Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat

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interesting given FB keeps chat history forever

I wonder if they have any flood protection... Also HTTPS packets should be quite safe.

It'd be more interesting if this was done over Google's chat, since Chrome trusts the Google Internet Authority cert...

Re: Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat

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post #14

I've been wondering if something like this could be helpful to breach the great firewall. Find some high traffic site in China and smuggle in content via various site features such as chat, messaging, forums, etc. The content could be obfuscated to appear benign while embedding hidden data in text, images, or binary attachments.

I don't know the specifics about how the surveilance is implemented, but embedding encrypted payload in benign files is a neat idea to bypass internet censorship, at least in principle.

Not exactly the same, but one of the ways to bypass: https://realworldcrypto.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/shrimpto...

Re: Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat

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post #14

I've been wondering if something like this could be helpful to breach the great firewall. Find some high traffic site in China and smuggle in content via various site features such as chat, messaging, forums, etc. The content could be obfuscated to appear benign while embedding hidden data in text, images, or binary attachments.

I don't know the specifics about how the surveilance is implemented, but embedding encrypted payload in benign files is a neat idea to bypass internet censorship, at least in principle.

Inconvenient Message Detection: https://github.com/DickingAround/InconvenientMessageDetectio...

Re: Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat

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With a built-in encryption layer (on top of eventual HTTPS) it could be a useful "hack" for the kinds of situations mentioned in the readme. I wonder how facebook and the telecos will feel about this. All in all, a cool concept but unlikely to work in practice if either facebook or the telecos do not want to.

It would be cool if a company such as facebook supported this. Seeing them as an enabler for free/uncensored internet, given that the country was chosen for a internet.org campaign.

Re: Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat

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post #12

With a built-in encryption layer (on top of eventual HTTPS) it could be a useful "hack" for the kinds of situations mentioned in the readme. I wonder how facebook and the telecos will feel about this. All in all, a cool concept but unlikely to work in practice if either facebook or the telecos do not want to.

It would be cool if a company such as facebook supported this. Seeing them as an enabler for free/uncensored internet, given that the country was chosen for a internet.org campaign.

If Facebook wanted to support it they would probably just implement a standard proxy server that would be more efficient. If anybody can handle the traffic it would be Facebook, but I bet their chat services are not really tuned for this kind of usage.
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