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Nothing a personal shadowSOCKS server cant handle. It works with the great firewall and theres no way Sri Lankas filter is stronger than Chinas.
by chelovek89 7y ago
Nothing a personal shadowSOCKS server cant handle. It works with the great firewall and theres no way Sri Lankas filter is stronger than Chinas.
- abc-xyz 7y agoSpeaking of shadowsocks, I really feel sorry for the author.. I believe his final words were "I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing"
- emilfihlman 7y agoCan you share more on this?
- abc-xyz 7y agoThis is the HN thread from the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101469 His GitHub went quiet after that, but as wiremaus points out, he seems to be alive and well based on his twitter posts.
- wiremaus 7y agoHere's some possible evidence that they're alive and well. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=https://twitter.com/clowwindy%3Flang%3Den&prev=search https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http...
- seppin 7y agoIf he's referring to China, sadly he probably won't live to see that day.
- praptak 7y agoThe sad fact is that oppressive governments don't really care. A few geeks who can pierce the firewall are no threat, the government just needs to choke the internet enough to prevent the general public from organising.
- walrus01 7y agoFortunately for people who care about the health of the internet, I doubt that the Sri Lankan government has the technical acumen or sufficient budget to operate anything similar to the Chinese GFW's DPI abilities.