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This is my first thought of how to do my own VPN in a hostile environment, with the term VPN do you think of consumer VPNs? (Mullvad, Nord, etc.) When I moved
by hhh 5y ago
This is my first thought of how to do my own VPN in a hostile environment, with the term VPN do you think of consumer VPNs? (Mullvad, Nord, etc.)
When I moved to university, bandwidth was limited in the dormitory to 1mbps/user (in 2016…) This was unacceptable to me, but we had a private link (non-internet) to the campus with virtual desktop infrastructure that had no such limits :). ssh -D immediately gave me 500mbps download to my dorm room, and I guess this sort of thing is probably why I think of ssh -D and running on port 53 etc to evade this sort of thing. Public education in the US can function pretty well as a government out to get you in terms of digital freedom :)
- 2Gkashmiri 5y agoyeah, i even ended up using firefox foxyproxy addon because then i could either go all in on the proxy or whitelist style only few websites or blacklist with all websites and few open. that addon probably was the best thing in all of it because i was not pushing the entire OS through the tunnel. yeah, i guess for some time, cisco was called out by news outlets for helping the government impose the firewall which the company later denied but the damage was done by then so it didnt really matter, still, i think this just slipped from their minds, a random port, somethimes 80, 8080, 3400. it was fun (well considering the circumstances) with the added risk of incarceration if caught and many were unfortunately so yeah