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Shadowsocks and ShadowsocksR don’t work anymore in my experience in China or Iran. V2ray does which is the successor to those.
by apfsx 3y ago
Shadowsocks and ShadowsocksR don’t work anymore in my experience in China or Iran. V2ray does which is the successor to those.
- b112 3y agoI wonder how many of these services are just state actors, who can then track people more directly.
- yellow_lead 3y agoThese are open source proxies, not centralized services, so I think it's unlikely. At least shadowsocks was well researched in the past, I'm not sure about v2ray.
- EasyMark 3y agoIf I was in Russia I would be a lot less afraid of USA/Britain/Germany MITM than I would of Putin's agents catching wind of the free flow of information and coming for me and my family and throwing us off the roof or putting polonium in our water supply.
- b112 3y agoInteresting. I said 'state actor' not 'western actor'. The state, any state, often employs such tactics to make people believe they are protected, and therefore said people will act more openly. There are a myriad of such known cases, in fact the examples are endless. So if one is in Russia... beware, for ways to get around blocking which work, may be ways secretly controlled by the Russian state. An example is a VPN service which is secretly run by the state, regardless of where it is incorporated or physically located. Another example is blocking products which are effective, but letting products which are easily MITM by the state to "work", thereby providing the illusion of security and safety. These tactics are thousands of years old, the employment of such methods is all that has changed. Make those which you distrust, use methods you control to organize. An example; the pub which is uses for meetings, is actually owned by state sympathizers, who claim otherwise.
- superkuh 3y agoShadowsocks does work against MITM attacks by my US ISP Comcast though. It is great software.
- apfsx 3y agoWouldn’t plain WireGuard also do that?
- superkuh 3y agoWireGuard is a lot heavier than shadowsocks-libev. shadowsocks-libev is literally under 5MB of ram used and very little CPU. Also very quick to compile and config. WireGuard is a full fledged heavy VPN. Shadowsocks can be used as a simple socks proxy if you want; and that's plenty for stopping Comcast from injecting malicious javascript into my HTTP connections.
- gruez 3y agoWhat "MITM attacks" are you talking about?
- cj 3y agoNot the person you're replying to, but most ISPs and cellular providers log DNS queries and use that to profile you or resell to data brokers. If you want to have some fun understanding this better, call up (for example) Verizon and have them send you the data they have on you. It's surprisingly detailed, including timestamped logs of every DNS query (in addition to specific profiling data, like "how likely you are to buy a new phone" or "household income", etc). https://www.verizon.com/support/download-and-view-vpd-file/ https://www.verizon.com/support/download-and-view-vpd-file/ After doing this myself, I always (at a minimum) use a privacy centric DNS and never the ISP's default.
- michael1999 3y agoStream-downscaling, ad injection, etc. US isp shenanigans.
- polski-g 3y ago