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> First things first, you have to get your hands on actual VPN software and configs. It would be nice if one of the big shortwave operators could datacast thes
by teeray 1y ago
> First things first, you have to get your hands on actual VPN software and configs.
It would be nice if one of the big shortwave operators could datacast these packages to the world as a public service.
- downrightmike 1y agohttps://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
- NamTaf 1y agoStreisand is extremely out of date and wouldn’t last long in China, but I don’t know how sophisticated Indonesia’s firewall is
- fsckboy 1y agoi have a few chinese friends and they say it's always easy to get a working vpn. that might not be true in a Tien An Minh type crisis, i dunno, but month in month out year upon year they surf western sites, exchange winnie the pooh pictures, etc. i suppose the people i know could be relatively upper class, i have no idea what type difference that could make. i had a chinese gf in LA who would send... my >cough< pictures... to her mother in china because she enjoyed them
- akk0 1y agoThe way you phrased this makes it sound like your ex was sending your dick pics to her mom, which I'm not sure is the intended reading (but more power to them...?)
- mfiro 1y agoThe problem is the countries, which censor Internet and block VPNs, also jam shortwave radio signals.
- SahAssar 1y agoCould I ask for a source on that and how common it is? Seems like it was used way back in the cold war (and even then not blocked/jammed) and I'd guess that current authoritarian regimes would perhaps not bother considering how few could use it.
- asimovfan 1y agoif it became a widespread practice, wouldnt even the countries that yet dont do it probably start doing it?
- bragr 1y agoSource: trust me bro, but you can find HF jamming pretty easily on Internet connected SDRs, especially near "sensitive" countries.
- Marsymars 1y agoThe USSR had an extensive shortwave radio jamming program!
- spwa4 1y ago... to block BBC and Voice of America, RFE and RL. But they recently switched to a much cheaper and more effective jamming program: Trump [1]. [1] https://apnews.com/article/voa-radio-trump-media-cuts-5f87df41daf0748e755ed9bc87dfcb3d https://apnews.com/article/voa-radio-trump-media-cuts-5f87df...
- BoxOfRain 1y agoThe UK used to get around this with very powerful medium-wave signals, the site at Orfordness could put out the BBC World Service at 2 MW towards the USSR and the Eastern Bloc. This site was built on the remains of a 1960s UK/US over-the-horizon radar installation that never worked properly. These broadcasts were shut down in the early '10s but ironically one of the masts is still in use by Radio Caroline, the former pirate who broke the BBC's radio monopoly by putting their station just outside of UK territorial waters. Their 4 kW goes pretty far given the site's previous role, heard them as far away as the Lake District.
- Drunkfoowl 1y ago[dead]
- ianburrell 1y agoThere isn't enough bandwidth in HF to transmit data. Digital HF audio is 20 kHz wide so maybe 50kbps. The entire HF band is only 3-30 MHz.
- transcriptase 1y agoWait until you find out what people used to do with phone lines!
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- zack6849 1y agosure there is, you can send files over HF, it may not be FAST, but once you get it into the country, you can just copy the file with a faster method (eg: usb drive), WINLINK supports attachments, so you could absolutely send these files over HF
- smallnamespace 1y agoIf you're going to be using USB drives anyway, then using them to move files into the country would be faster.
- hattmall 1y agoBut then couldn't the authorities just intercept it too and then block those ips?