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1309 points rickybule | 7 comments | | HN request time: 0.259s | source | bottom

Indonesia is currently in chaos. Earlier today, the government blocked access to Twitter & Discord knowing news spread mainly through those channels. Usually we can use Cloudflare's WARP to avoid it, but just today they blocked the access as well. What alternative should we use?
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acuozzo ◴[] No.45054469[source]
Grab a VPS and use SOCKS5 tunneling via SSH.
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1. Joel_Mckay ◴[] No.45054743[source]
SSH is often targeted by deep packet inspection and protocol binding filters.

i.e. One is better off tunneling over https://www.praise-the-glorious-leader.google.com.facebook.c...

include SSH traffic protocol auto-swapping on your server (i.e. no way to tell the apparent web page differs between clients), as some corporate networks are infamously invasive. People can do this all day long, and they do... =3

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2. bitwize ◴[] No.45054899[source]
lolwut

At least it isn't goatse...

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3. Joel_Mckay ◴[] No.45055011[source]
It is not a real URI... lol

The point was to include something clowns can't filter without incurring collateral costs, and wrapping the ssh protocol in standard web traffic. =3

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4. chrisweekly ◴[] No.45055519{3}[source]
tangent: what is the significance of the "=3" you sign your messages with?
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5. Joel_Mckay ◴[] No.45055557{4}[source]
Don't worry about it... =3
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