Base64 encoding is such a useful tool. I used it to transfer binary over IRC once.
Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat
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Re: Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat
#42This looks similar to the "IPv6 over Social Networks" RFC, published 2009-04-01:
Re: Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Internet.org might not be net neutral, but that doesn't make it bad. Much of the world isn't the US, and differently structured markets need to be considered differently.
So if you are in an impoverished area your packets are different from first world packets, magically making it harder to send them to 207.241.224.2 (archive.org) than 173.252.120.6 (facebook.com)? No, that is not the case. Instead, Facebook will pay for you to get Internet if that is Internet that only lets you access Facebook . And that is not an Internet at all. The infrastructure, the physical reality, means that…
I didn't know that infrastructure was free to build and maintain. I wonder why WorldCom and Global crossing went bankrupt, if they had no expenses.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It would certainly be interesting if facebook started to provide proxy access
They sure as hell would love to see all of your traffic. Facebook wants to be your ISP, no actually, Facebook wants to be your internet.
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#45I think this is kind of abusive of FB's infrastructure TBH. It must be hard to keep real-time messaging up for ... okay, I was going to say for 1 billion users, looked it up and it's 1.3 billion monthly actives - 890 million daily actives (Jan 2014 figure). So tell you what, on second thought I think they can handle your data. however there's a good chance you'll cause some infrastructure problems since I'm sure ther…
It's one of the more useful ways facebook infrastructure is put to work.
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#46I think this is kind of abusive of FB's infrastructure TBH. It must be hard to keep real-time messaging up for ... okay, I was going to say for 1 billion users, looked it up and it's 1.3 billion monthly actives - 890 million daily actives (Jan 2014 figure). So tell you what, on second thought I think they can handle your data. however there's a good chance you'll cause some infrastructure problems since I'm sure ther…
Maybe if it becomes popular, it'll make facebook rethink wanting to store everyone's messages until the end of time.
If facebook can see this traffic, they would love it, not discourage it.
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#47This is really cool! In so many 2nd and 3rd world/poor countries internet is a luxury, as the price of bandwith is so high. Philippines for instance, a country that mainly provides connectivity through limited 3G and LTE, have a monthly price of about 30 beers from the local bar. In comparison, I pay around the price of 4-5 local beers, for 100/100 fiber.
Its sucks so hard that people cant afford to get knowledge from internet. Especially considering they would benefit greatly as schoolbooks are expensive and in some countries, censored.
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#48This is the kind of hacking I find to be abusive. Finding clever uses for things is fine, but not when it's misuse with potential for harm. This reminds me of when someone exploited TinyURL to make TinyDisk.
Re: Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It would certainly be interesting if facebook started to provide proxy access
The question then is, do you trust facebook more than your isp?
Re: Tunneling Internet traffic over FB chat
#50This is really cool! In so many 2nd and 3rd world/poor countries internet is a luxury, as the price of bandwith is so high. Philippines for instance, a country that mainly provides connectivity through limited 3G and LTE, have a monthly price of about 30 beers from the local bar. In comparison, I pay around the price of 4-5 local beers, for 100/100 fiber. Its sucks so hard that people cant afford to get knowledge fro…
Hack author here, in my country, Paraguay, you get 10 MBPS for ~140 U$ per month.
I discovered the Internet through my father, because he is a journalist and the press had really early access to this kind of tech, 20 years later I'm still crazy about it.
Thanks for the comment!