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What is the state of the art on censorship resistance right now? This cat-and-mouse proxy fight never seems to go great for the good guys. My last in-depth rea
by blintz 6y ago
What is the state of the art on censorship resistance right now? This cat-and-mouse proxy fight never seems to go great for the good guys.
My last in-depth reading on it was the excellent 2016 SoK paper “Towards grounding censorship circumvention in empiricism” (http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2018/cmsc818O/papers/sok-censorship.pdf http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2018/cmsc818O/papers/sok-cen...)
The high level takeaway then seemed to be that researchers were not focusing efforts on measures that can actually help more people resist censors. Have we made progress since then?
- robert_foss 6y agoThere are relatively good solutions like dns fronting on Amazon or Google, but they frown upon being used that way.
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- ignoramous 6y agoI keep an eye on the work censorship.ai does as they are usually at the cutting edge of it: https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/papers/ https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/papers/ Tor, Jigsaw's Outline, and V2RayNG are worth keeping tabs on as they're FOSS projects and do much of their development in the open. Lantern's development whilst it was still open source was fascinating to see as well. Since 2016 (I believe) they stopped doing so out of security concerns: https://twitter.com/adamfisk/status/1316569766832869377 https://twitter.com/adamfisk/status/1316569766832869377
- meibo 6y agoTelegram got around Russian censors by constantly pushing new IPs for their servers with Google Cloud. Of course this is a cat and mouse game as well, but it worked out well for them, since Russia didn't want to block all of Google/AWS. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26028415 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26028415