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cizra@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

So it’ll take you 10 minutes, instead of 5, to download a DVD rip of a movie… This limitation would have next to no practical impact on being able to communicate with the free world.

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redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
True, it’s not like Russian need to use VPN to pirate stuff anyway.

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- deafboy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Wait! You got it. We just encapsule https in the bittorrent protocol!
  
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  - tal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I was talking to someone from the UAE in some thread on lemmy.blahaj.zone. Apparently, because the UAE doesn't like LGBT stuff, they block images hosted on that server.
    
    I was seriously thinking there about what it would take to hide a VPN connection, and that BitTorrent Is actually not a terrible choice, as it generates a lot of traffic.
    
    IIRC I went looking and some guy did a prototype as his masters thesis some years back.
    
    Lemme see if I can find it.
    
    googles
    
    Yeah.
    
    https://github.com/danoctavian/bit-smuggler
    
    China started killing VPN connections.
    
    watcha gonna do.
    
    bit-smuggler might be the tool for you. keep those pesky internet censors off your back, get your tweets through and read your wikipedia in peace.
    
    bit-smuggler is a tool designed to allow you to defeat internet censorship by tunneling your network traffic through what appears to be a genuine bittorrent peer connection, fooling censorship firewalls into thinking it's harmless.
    
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    redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    People in western countries use VPN to hide bittorrent traffics, while people living in an authoritarian countries uses bittorrent to hide VPN traffics. Life is sometimes stranger than fictions.
    
    Very interesting project though. Thanks for mentioning it.
    
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