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https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/295 China for example ? It's just few IPs on a known port. It's trivial to block. now if the cloud providers ran it on every of their internet facing load balancers so you could use any of their IPs…

comment by InsidiousWombat · 2026-10-23 · in Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds

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Xray-core concealed a certificate verification bypass vulnerability

story by timbill · 2026-10-04 · 15 comments

…The censorship from GFW is ever evolving. See the endless cat-and-mouse games yourself. [2][3] [1] https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/511 [2] https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues?q=is%3Aissue+state%... [3] https://gfw.report/en/

comment by RandyOrion · 2026-01-26 · in Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only

…thread of record and anti-censorship resources of the Iran Network Shutdown [1]. Hope it helps. [1] https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/561

comment by RandyOrion · 2026-01-22 · in From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown

> Wireguard literally just works https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/558

comment by bwv848 · 2025-12-29 · in Staying ahead of censors in 2025

…[1] One of the recently seen public mentions is at https://blog.nommy.moe/blog/exotic-mesh-vpn/ [2] https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/490

comment by defanor · 2025-11-15 · in Lawmakers want to ban VPNs

Interesting, a apparent GFW insider (GFW官方代表) making a statement on the leak and its source: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/519#issuecomment-33...

comment by smoovb · 2025-09-19 · in Geedge and MESA leak: Analyzing the great firewall’s largest document leak

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Leak of Geedge Networks internal documents

story by captn3m0 · 2025-09-13 · 0 comments

Some analysis and discussion here: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/519 > After its founding in 2018, one of Geedge's first clients was the government of Kazakhstan, to whom the company sold its flagship Tiangou Secure Gateway…

comment by miohtama · 2025-09-13 · in Geedge and MESA leak: Analyzing the great firewall’s largest document leak

…But SNI is not CH and ESNI is not ECH Will China block ECH ECH blocking has been detected in Russia https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/417 According to Niere et al. (2025) "Additionally, with the ECH extension not yet being widely…

comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2025-08-31 · in Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

…is commonly used in China. https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core https://github.com/net4people/bbs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall

comment by 0xml · 2025-08-29 · in Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

Go here. https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues Very helpful community.

comment by thewanderer1983 · 2025-08-28 · in Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

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Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025

story by Welteneroberer · 2025-08-22 · 1 comment

…edit: For anything network fingerprinting related, especially censorship related I usually browse https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues

comment by ghxst · 2025-06-28 · in A short history of web bots and bot detection techniques

…ru/tekhnologii/520476-uskorausim-youtube-... On cloudflare-ech being blocked (since November 2024): - https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/417 - https://ntc.party/t/обсуждение-блокировка-замедление-ech-clo... on allowlists: -…

comment by stek29 · 2025-06-27 · in Russian Internet users are unable to access the open Internet

…since a few weeks ago, has started flagging traffic bound to/from proxies as DDoS vectors: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/429

comment by ignoramous · 2024-12-15 · in Doxx/Darkflare: DarkFlare TCPoCDN (TCP over CDN)

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Blocking of Cloudflare ECH in Russia

story by DanAtC · 2024-12-12 · 0 comments

…projects utilising HTTP/TLS are popular in the anti-censorship community (discussion board: https://github.com/net4people/bbs ) and there are many variants of it; ex: - KCP (over UDP): https://github.com/xtaci/kcp-go - Bepass:…

comment by ignoramous · 2024-11-21 · in Doxx/Darkflare: DarkFlare TCPoCDN (TCP over CDN)

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Cloudflare has started re-enabling ECH

story by btdmaster · 2024-09-22 · 0 comments

…https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/157828/my-isp-b... https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/19

comment by ytch · 2024-08-14 · in History of HTTPS Usage

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story by jadijadi · 2024-03-16 · 0 comments

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story by paulcarroty · 2024-01-13 · 0 comments

Discussion: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/88

comment by goodburb · 2023-12-24 · in NotWG: Obfuscated WireGuard tunnel to evade DPI detection

…do to enough to obfuscate. Therefore censors can identify who is using signal and even block it. https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/63 Privacy tools can make you stand out. Unless methods are used to obfuscate your data.

comment by thewanderer1983 · 2023-11-16 · in Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive

…sure they are both physically in mainland China. here's one thread on github of this entire event: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/303

comment by throwaway1103 · 2023-11-04 · in Clash, a tool to break China's Great Fire Wall, is Deleted in GitHub

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Cloudflare R2 has been blocked by the South Korean government

story by captain_bender · 2023-09-25 · 1 comment

I never trusted Signal due to https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/60

comment by yuuta · 2023-06-19 · in I don't trust Signal

Things just got more tricky: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/129

comment by ignoramous · 2022-10-16 · in Cloak: Censorship Circumvention Tool

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Large scale blocking of TLS-based censorship circumvention tools in China

story by yamrzou · 2022-10-08 · 0 comments

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Large scale blocking of TLS-based censorship circumvention tools in China

story by mrkoot · 2022-10-05 · 0 comments

…[1] https://reclaimthenet.org/signal-offers-workarounds-for-iran... [2] https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/63 [3] https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2021/05/i-have-lot-say-ab... [4] https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/ [5]

comment by junon · 2022-02-07 · in Matrix: An open network for secure, decentralized communication

#4 on the timeline: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/63

comment by modzu · 2021-02-09 · in A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community

…see their timeline and screenshots here [0], it says they weren't allowed to post in the forum. [0] https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/60

comment by voiper1 · 2021-02-09 · in A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community

…that's only ~2 years old, with only a handful of posts in that time. My money's on sockpupppets. 1: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/60#issuecomment-775... 2: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/60

comment by sneak · 2021-02-09 · in A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community

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A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community

story by 1una · 2021-02-09 · 275 comments

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Signal's TLS Proxy Failed to Be Probing Resistant

story by rrryougi · 2021-02-05 · 42 comments

Signal just closed their issue function there. See here: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/60

comment by realducksoft · 2021-02-05 · in Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal