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Come to think of it, maybe it isn’t such a good plan to give every one of your informants a unique domain to communicate on. Pretty much any government these da
by nneonneo 3y ago
Come to think of it, maybe it isn’t such a good plan to give every one of your informants a unique domain to communicate on. Pretty much any government these days can survey all the internet traffic in their country. Wouldn’t it be a little tiny bit suspicious that, say, an Iranian sports news site is frequented by like 1-2 people in the whole of Iran?
The entire premise of this covert messaging system was flawed at the outset, and it’s just tragic that dozens of people lost their lives due to a system this poorly thought out.
- cirosantilli 3y agoExactly. The best bet is to use a service that is used by a huge number of users and try to hide your traffic in it. I wonder why they didn't do gmail -> gmail for example. Maybe there are good reasons.
- nneonneo 3y agoChina is a special case in that GMail (and many other services) are blocked; most of the directly-accessible major services are operated by companies that will readily cooperate with the government. Hosting your spies in an environment where even the content would be available to the government seems like a generally bad idea. Using a VPN could subject a spy to additional scrutiny, especially if they work in a sensitive domain.