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almogo | 1 month ago

Does anyone know how Iranians are _actually_ communicating right now? I remember seeing here on HN (admittedly a long time ago) some Bluetooth-mesh technologies that promised decentralized solutions to these very type of problems

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simonmales|1 month ago

You might be referring to Bitchat.

westurner|1 month ago

https://github.com/x011/smtp-tunnel-proxy :

> A high-speed covert tunnel that disguises TCP traffic as SMTP email communication to bypass Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) firewalls

petcat|1 month ago

It seems like these smuggle-disguise protocols are almost always trivially detectable.

DetectDefect|1 month ago

No mention of any security review, or even testing. Reason enough to stay away from such tools.

BurningFrog|1 month ago

The only working communication I see mentioned on X is Starlink.

RickJWagner|1 month ago

I saw a comment yesterday from a user claiming to be in Iran. I think he said StarLink was usable. ( Maybe that’s changed, though. )

_DeadFred_|1 month ago

Maybe better for an after the brutal theocratic regime crackdown discussion?

Imustaskforhelp|1 month ago

I think IPv4 services are still present no?

So like they are very heavily DPI censored though and maybe govts able to spy on any messages you send right now but I feel like there is a still possibility that for the average communication, they might still exist but although heavily heavily censored/bad and I feel like protestors might not be able to communicate (which I feel like is the question you meant to be asking)

https://radar.cloudflare.com/routing/ir

So TLDR: protestors must have a hard time sadly and they may be using bluetooth mesh or other tech, only they can tell after we figure things out but also lets say some major services websites might still exist after all if they bypass the dpi censorship for IPv4 services.

In my opinion, I feel like Protestors must be using mesh based technologies as you mention. We'll see what really ends up happening after we get some reports from Iran.

tucnak|1 month ago

It is said they pulled the plug for all peering on Thursday, although I would assume some kind of government-run ISP may be operational still (I haven't checked Cloudlfare radar)