I wonder how this will affect political discourse in the USA. Legitimate question. I’m not concerned with “sides”, more interested to know if there will be less “division/fiery rhetoric”. There seems to have been a systemic psyops campaign from foreign actors into US political “hot” topics.
Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
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#22Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
#23I wonder how this will affect political discourse in the USA. Legitimate question. I’m not concerned with “sides”, more interested to know if there will be less “division/fiery rhetoric”. There seems to have been a systemic psyops campaign from foreign actors into US political “hot” topics.
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#24Try SquareX's disposable browser - works for me in China and is basically Remote Browser Isolation but for consumers. It seems free right now - https://www.sqrx.com
requiring an email in order to download a privacy tool isnt a great start for anonymity. why should I trust this tool?
It seems to accept sharklasers.com (aka anonymous) email addresses though, so you don't have to use your real email address. :)
It also seems to work via Tor Browser, although it's a bit slow.
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#25Ten years ago, I was working for a US post-production company that produced a one-off game show in China. We used OpenVPN to monitor our servers, but it was being blocked. I ended up setting up a new OpenVPN server using obfsproxy, and it worked. It might be worth trying in your situation: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/TrafficObfuscatio...
IDS/IPS's are virtually worthless these days anyway so I can't see much downside if every Window's, Mac's and Linux OS's network traffic appeared to be completely random/obfuscated out-of-box.
Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
#26Try SquareX's disposable browser - works for me in China and is basically Remote Browser Isolation but for consumers. It seems free right now - https://www.sqrx.com
requiring an email in order to download a privacy tool isnt a great start for anonymity. why should I trust this tool?
use a dummy email -- if you feel so unsafe. At least Squarex is free right now so no credit card needed
Re: Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
#27I wonder how this will affect political discourse in the USA. Legitimate question. I’m not concerned with “sides”, more interested to know if there will be less “division/fiery rhetoric”. There seems to have been a systemic psyops campaign from foreign actors into US political “hot” topics.
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#28Unfortunately, thanks to the Great Firewall of China, there has been a lot of resources put in to fingerprint VPNs and block them by state actors. Fortunately, however, there is equally years of some of the smartest minds on the planet working to bypass Chinese censorship, so there are some great OpenVPN alternatives. I really encourage you to look into something like Shadowsocks which Chinese people have found great…
To be honest, I think they are blocking anything that exchanges a lot of data with oversesas IPs, after hitting a certain threshold.
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#29However some huge ingress/egress traffic to unknown website with few random pages looks very suspiciously. So it's possible to select those websites using statistics analysis.
Now the question to hackers: how do I hide tunnelled traffic so its statistics does not look suspicious?
Ideally one would use some CDN webserver (like cloudflare or amazon), however without encrypted SNI, host is extractable with DPI.