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Without knowing that much about this area, i think https://mosh.org/ is a traditional choice if you need encrypted communication in a high packet loss environment.
UDP is certainly not known to improve traffic reliability in those environments. TCP is
[Of course you could say the same thing about TCP i suppose depending on which congestion control algorithm is in use]
How likely is it that those "protestors" are US and Israel propped and the plan is to do another regime change via this route? Isn't this "son of the late Shah" a guy from the US?
> How likely is it that those "protestors" are US and Israel propped It's almost sure that both US and Israel are meddling with the current situation. That doesn't mean the situation isn't also started by and wanted by the population. For a comparison point in the past, the civil rights and antiwar movements in the US were grass-roots movements started by local people with legitimate claims. At the same time, opponen…
Even the Romans knew that if you wanted to stay in power you had to provide bread and circuses.
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In my experience 80% packet loss makes most common protocols basically unusable. Yes you can still get data out...but many apps will just fail due to timeouts and other things.
I imagine the people with illegal starlink terminals are fairly tech savy and can use custom protocols. Living in Iran they probably already have a lot of experience with vpns and lower level protocols to evade censorship.
How do these tens of thousands of Starlink terminals get smuggled into Iran?
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It's weird how Apple and Google don't get it, while SpaceX does.
Starlink isn't perfect, but at least it doesn't go for "it's so not our problem, we'll just make sure that every single VPN exit point Iranians use is GeoIP'd as Iran in our systems" like Google tends to, or "let's lick every authoritarian boot, we control the app distribution and our users will suck it up" like Apple does. Not even Starlink has the balls to oppose the likes of Russia and China directly - they aren't…
And this makes sense for an organization thats so highly reliant on federal support, vs Apple and Google who only have to just stay somewhat in the states good graces.
Not too surprising, given that Starlink operates in Iran without a permit, "space pirate radio" style, and has something of a habit of making the access free when major protests happen and the government imposes a network blackout. Iranian government and Starlink have no love for each other, clearly. It's a pattern by now: whenever a government wants to do something awful, it shuts down internet access - so that no o…
And no Tesla factories in Iran I suppose helps too :)
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Starlink isn't perfect, but at least it doesn't go for "it's so not our problem, we'll just make sure that every single VPN exit point Iranians use is GeoIP'd as Iran in our systems" like Google tends to, or "let's lick every authoritarian boot, we control the app distribution and our users will suck it up" like Apple does. Not even Starlink has the balls to oppose the likes of Russia and China directly - they aren't…
I'm unfortunately inclined to not look at their actions so favourably. They operate solely in jurisdictions where the US state supports open destabilization, and dont where the political ramifications would be too high for the US. Makes them little more than an extension of the US imperialist structure. And this makes sense for an organization thats so highly reliant on federal support, vs Apple and Google who only h…
Apple and Google have done more than just stay in good graces of governments by getting rid of apps governments don't like, they haven't enforced their terms against X, and given tens of millions to Trump's ballroom.
I guess with motivated actors anything is possible.
I candidly thought it wasn’t possible to block Starlink. I guess with motivated actors anything is possible.
I candidly thought it wasn’t possible to block Starlink. I guess with motivated actors anything is possible.
Jamming on such a large scale is expensive, but it's hardly impossible.