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znano··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
I have came to realization that what differentiates slop code and good code is the ambitious and how much care and soul you have put into that work. When you care about what you're building you will build it well, with or without AI.
znano··on Making of SARE: How I Designed a File Format for Encrypted Data From Scratch
Yeah thanks for the suggestion, i guess i can allocate a few bytes at the end of the header for the MAC so it would prevent tweaking the metadata.
znano··on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
I do what i can do, I do care about surveillance by Google, Meta and others, that's why i wrote a book on privacy. This was just an observation i shared.
znano··on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
I don't think the islamic regime is that advanced intl wise to track every single movement on the internet. maybe true for US if it turns totalitarian one day. But i do agree that they want to do so, not denying that at all.
znano··on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
Also hosting technical wikis would be super useful (because there won't be any other way to use ChatGPT or google stuff), and efficient (storage wise) if deployed with kiwix
znano··on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
It's better than SMS, isn't it? In these situations perfection is not viable.
znano··on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
Also obfs4 i believe is widely used there, either with tor or standalone(obfs4 over SSH). And dynamic port forwarding using SSH alone is widely used and fairly simple.
znano··on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
Yes they should work in these scenarios but requires mass adoption to run a proper mesh network infrastructure.
znano··on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
Yes also typical disturbance noises seem to not work on these satellites otherwise they would've done it. probably due to them being LEO satellites. because they have stronger signals and that makes it harder for noise/jammers to overpower legitimate signals (higher signal-to-noise ratio).
znano··on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
Thanks, yeah but illegal usually don't mean unobtainable
znano··on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
for what? nobody should follow anything blindly and im sure people in iran are more aware of this and they know how to take security precautions.
znano··on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
Yeah, also a good source of getting information from the world in full internet shutdowns.
znano··on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
It is possible, i found this tool for it: https://github.com/nasnet-community/neighbor-link
znano··on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
Yes, sorry my bad.
znano··on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
Yes, they will, im saying it with such certainty because of how much they're scared of it. It shows when they criminalize it and call it "spyware".

But no matter what they do there will be light at the end. it cannot always be night.

znano··on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
I have to do more research on NIN, it's hard to know what they're exactly doing.
znano··on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
True. but based on my researches don't use DPI on the NIN, so you might be able to use WG or OpenVpn on a VPS inside Iran but not to a VPS on let's say digital ocean. They can also selectively increase the or decrease the strength of their DPI as well, for example a range of IP can be graylisted and nothing will work on it, or they put more active probing effort on some ranges of IPs.
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Good article, but i don't understand what it has to do with telegram
znano··on Don't use Telegram, but if you have to, at least use Partisan Telegram
With protests rising in Turkey and its mass adoption of Telegram, I thought it might be helpful to share this alternative with improved OPSEC.
znano··on Show HN: Fire for the Wall – A Guide to Censorship-Resistant Tools and Networks
honestly i posted it here in hope of finding some contributors for it. as i alone cannot finish it all
znano··on Show HN: A ninja's Handbook: A book on privacy, security, and anonymity online
Yeah, but compared to few years ago things have changed for better, i see a lot of communities dedicated to privacy nowadays, a lot of more resources and content is out there now.
znano··on Show HN: Fire-ninja-bot a telegram bot fight censorship
Thanks for the feedback, I can add matrix support in the future versions.
znano··on Creating a BlackHole Shell with 16 Lines of Rust Code
Tried that before writing that, It caused the SSH shell to break which wasn't what i was looking for.
znano··on [dead]
A CLI tool to make slowed reverbed videos like those on youtube.
znano··on [dead]
Please consider adding ZeroNet sites that are not already there