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Censorship companies probably can't hire good talent. I'm actually glad to see this, however it might get patched if this tool becomes too widespread.
by progbits 4y ago
Censorship companies probably can't hire good talent. I'm actually glad to see this, however it might get patched if this tool becomes too widespread.
- nnx 4y agoOr perhaps some good talent somehow ending up working there made sure the system is full of plausibly deniable holes.
- friendlyHornet 4y agoI would like to believe that; it makes me feel warm and comfortable
- userbinator 4y agoInteresting to see the two meanings of good appear in both your and your parent's comment.
- gjulianm 4y agoIt's not as much about talent but about tradeoffs. I work in traffic monitoring tools (not censorship, just observability tools for infrastructure) there's always the decision of how many edge cases you want to cover vs how fast you want your tool to go. At millions of packets per second, an extra "if" might make a big difference in the throughput you're able to monitor. So maybe it's actually reasonable to ignore the .1% that use "hoSt" instead of "Host" to avoid losing .5% of the packets.
- someguydave 4y agoMore importantly, using “hoSt” is a self-declaration of being an enemy of the censorship regime which is probably dangerous in Russia.
- Avamander 4y agoI suspect it's not even about not being able to, there's very little motivation. I had a brief contact with ZScaler who operates approximately in this area of traffic inspection, they literally have no clue and they don't care. Their service can be hot flaming trash but people will still pay them money because they check some boxes. I'm sure it applies to other companies in the same area as well.
- ValdikSS 4y agoThat was true 3-4 years ago but nowadays they're getting surprisingly good, and that's alarming.