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Re: Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey

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Post by higherpurpose »

joeblau wrote: post #12

It's amazing what humans beings will do for information. This reminds me of a time in 2007 where my friend was a teacher at an elementary school. The school blocked MySpace and Facebook to stop the students from visiting those sites. Somehow, the students figured out how to use proxies and get around the firewalls and what ended up happening is that the teachers were the only ones who couldn't figure out how to get a…

In communist countries people used to listen to radio from the same nationality people that lived in other countries (speaking the same language).

In fact, that's happening in North Korea right now, too. North Koreans who fled have radio stations in South Korea and some of them also smuggle some radio units in NK.

Re: Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey

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Post by higherpurpose »

tyrant_device wrote: post #10

Just for kicks, does Twitter have an onion server?

I was wondering if Twitter is doing anything to help the people in Turkey circumvent the censorship there. They should, but so far I've heard nothing about it. Hosting an onion server and an exit relay could help.

Re: Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey

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Post by agumonkey »

joeblau wrote: post #12

It's amazing what humans beings will do for information. This reminds me of a time in 2007 where my friend was a teacher at an elementary school. The school blocked MySpace and Facebook to stop the students from visiting those sites. Somehow, the students figured out how to use proxies and get around the firewalls and what ended up happening is that the teachers were the only ones who couldn't figure out how to get a…

Centralized authority is weak against distributed desire and eyes. We will constantly attempt any potential hack. And as soon as a crack is found, it diffuses everywhere.

Re: Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey

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Post by higherpurpose »

Oculus wrote: post #29

My biggest fear is once dictatorships/governments become aware of the ability to sidestep their bans, they'll begin blocking websites such as torproject.org. Keep in mind this traffic spike is because people who don't normally use Tor, started using it (i.e. they downloaded it). At that point I think we'll begin to see an arms race between the public and government which might finally bring us to decentralization of…

Others could mirror Tor (more risky, yes, but better than nothing).

Re: Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey

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Post by cturhan »

higherpurpose wrote: post #43
tyrant_device wrote: post #10

Just for kicks, does Twitter have an onion server?

I was wondering if Twitter is doing anything to help the people in Turkey circumvent the censorship there. They should, but so far I've heard nothing about it. Hosting an onion server and an exit relay could help.

Twitter provided a SMS based system to send tweets from users

Re: Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey

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Post by nikcub »

the Turkish government will eventually figure out how to block Tor, and when that happens the users will need bridges.

You can help out by dedicating some spare resources to run as a relay + bridge, takes a minute to install and setup.

Share your bridge info to those who require it (not publically).

Example install + config:

https://gist.github.com/nikcub/9722068

Re: Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

girvo wrote: post #33
chacham15 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The solution I used to use in high school: add a period to the end of the domain name. E.g. "www.facebook.com" became "www.facebook.com.". Apparently, the last dot does nothing, but gets around almost all pattern matchings. Everyone I told was amazed, but it actually worked (and teachers/administration were clueless).

My favourite was that http was blocked, but https wasn't at my school. Easy peasy :)

I use that for a different trick at school. It gets around keyword filtering on search terms :)

Re: Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey

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Post by mandelbulb »

nikcub wrote: post #47

the Turkish government will eventually figure out how to block Tor, and when that happens the users will need bridges. You can help out by dedicating some spare resources to run as a relay + bridge, takes a minute to install and setup. Share your bridge info to those who require it (not publically). Example install + config: https://gist.github.com/nikcub/9722068

I wonder, they tried to block DNS blocking Google's servers...

It might take them a while to look up what a bridge is.

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