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This seems like a decent tool to use in an oppressed, non-free country. Except Tor (or Whonix or Tails), WireGuard, or ZeroTier are a better option. All of th
by Fnoord 6y ago
This seems like a decent tool to use in an oppressed, non-free country.
Except Tor (or Whonix or Tails), WireGuard, or ZeroTier are a better option.
All of these allow better management (and therefore control) of routes.
There is a very good reason Usenet does not require uploading, and P2P protocols like BitTorrent are used with a VPN. It provides a reasonable enough protection against a civil actor such as RIAA and MPAA while a determined actor (with more control over the used networks can dig up the data trail. Ie. police in case of serious crimes such as CP.
On a somewhat related note what was the name of the end of 90s pseudonymous network where you had to buy a 'nym' and could renew it for money?
- api 6y agoThis actually uses ZeroTier under the hood. It uses ZT as the transport, encryption, and network virtualization layer and then does P2P exit node stuff on top of that. ZT would be useful for this from an oppressed country because it is used by a ton of businesses. You would just look like you were accessing a corporate ZeroTier DVPN from home, which is pretty common these days. That's better in some ways than Tor. The problem with Tor is if you use it naked then it can be obvious that you're using Tor. Even in countries like the USA I've always been concerned that using Tor might put you in some kind of database. In a very non-free country I'd be really worried about using Tor naked, meaning without running it over something more mundane looking like ZT or Wireguard.