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this is fine and dandy but when you have a state actor operating with such offensive tactics like india is currently engaged in kashmir, there isnt much these "

this is fine and dandy but when you have a state actor operating with such offensive tactics like india is currently engaged in kashmir, there isnt much these "proxies" can do. sorry. the idea of these proxies is all fun and nice but when a government can just whitelist the entire fucking internet and none of these nonsense works https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/15/internet-partially-restored-kashmir-social-media-ban-stays https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/15/internet-parti... https://thewire.in/rights/kashmir-internet-white-list-net-neutrality https://thewire.in/rights/kashmir-internet-white-list-net-ne... https://thewire.in/rights/modis-thought-control-firewall-in-kashmir-may-be-the-internets-future-in-india https://thewire.in/rights/modis-thought-control-firewall-in-... >The reason the government wants to keep blocking full access to the internet in the Valley is its fear of civil disobedience. and the ban is still in place although it is on high speed mobile internet today. https://thekashmirwalla.com/2020/12/high-speed-internet-ban-in-kashmir-500-days-and-counting/ https://thekashmirwalla.com/2020/12/high-speed-internet-ban-... not to forget there were reports of CISCO being brought in to build this fucking firewall

f430 6y ago
its weird that all the criticisms of the technique in this article is being downvoted without any rebuttal people underestimate the security intelligence service of countries in this region. They have far more capacity than people in the West estimate. It's irresponsible of HN to put people in potential harms way, Iran is at a breaking point, they have nothing to lose and will stop at nothing to stop exfiltration and access to internet.
- 2Gkashmiri 6y ago
  yes. back after 5 august, i think i got my first crack at internet in february 2020 with 2G internet and a whitelist of "allowed websites". i found out in my own tests that ssh tunneling over random ports used to work. i had managed to set up a server on amazon aws, and i did a dirty ssh tunnel to that to get access to blocked websites. even that failed after some tries and changing networks. >It's irresponsible of HN to put people in potential harms way, Iran is at a breaking point, they have nothing to lose and will stop at nothing to stop exfiltration and access to internet. yes. shocked pikachu face gets a random HN reader nothing but people can die as a result of this. heck i have records of people who are locked up since last year because of "social media misuse" aka dissent
  - f430 6y ago
    I think people on HN are mostly North Americans, they are generally very ignorant of the workings outside their own suburbs/city (we live in the best part of the world they say!) So there is this bias towards other 3rd world countries. To many they are still a backwards, technologically illiterate countries yet somehow North Korea routinely dominates other wealthier nations in cyber security. India's intelligence agency has always been competing with Pakistani, very much like the Iranian security forces & Israeli intelligence, these guys have been fighting battles the rest of the world will never hear about, so its foolish to underestimate their capabilities like we do on HN.

f430 6y ago

its weird that all the criticisms of the technique in this article is being downvoted without any rebuttal people underestimate the security intelligence service of countries in this region. They have far more capacity than people in the West estimate. It's irresponsible of HN to put people in potential harms way, Iran is at a breaking point, they have nothing to lose and will stop at nothing to stop exfiltration and access to internet.

2Gkashmiri 6y ago
yes. back after 5 august, i think i got my first crack at internet in february 2020 with 2G internet and a whitelist of "allowed websites". i found out in my own tests that ssh tunneling over random ports used to work. i had managed to set up a server on amazon aws, and i did a dirty ssh tunnel to that to get access to blocked websites. even that failed after some tries and changing networks. >It's irresponsible of HN to put people in potential harms way, Iran is at a breaking point, they have nothing to lose and will stop at nothing to stop exfiltration and access to internet. yes. shocked pikachu face gets a random HN reader nothing but people can die as a result of this. heck i have records of people who are locked up since last year because of "social media misuse" aka dissent
- f430 6y ago
  I think people on HN are mostly North Americans, they are generally very ignorant of the workings outside their own suburbs/city (we live in the best part of the world they say!) So there is this bias towards other 3rd world countries. To many they are still a backwards, technologically illiterate countries yet somehow North Korea routinely dominates other wealthier nations in cyber security. India's intelligence agency has always been competing with Pakistani, very much like the Iranian security forces & Israeli intelligence, these guys have been fighting battles the rest of the world will never hear about, so its foolish to underestimate their capabilities like we do on HN.