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How to hide your SS account from people
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Absnt
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RE: How to hide your SS account from people
Holy shit I was way off, they do it through a "next generation packet pipeline". Totally deep packet inspection. Creepy as shit. Works coss-browser. I'm not sure if the sandboxing in the tor-browser would be able to defeat that. It *might* be able to, but given they're blocking dns records, I'm not so sure TLS would be able to make a connection to encrypt before it gets cut off. In a virtual machine, that's not true and it would still work with TLS (but possibly not without TLS), but if they're on a child account, installing a virtual machine might not be possible because of a lack of permissions. This is some really creepy bullshit.
In fact, if you visit pornographic content, it does fucking image recognition on the fucking content and *blurs it out*. They spent way too much time on this fucking creepy bullshit.
All we can hope is that the tor browser sandboxes and encrypts to the tor network before packets for dns are transmitted. Plus we have to hope it doesn't prevent tor browser from being launched easily in the first place. Then you have to deal with downloading it without the parents knowing, given that the parental reports email them a list of websites you visited.
Yeah we're gonna have to do some serious testing here. Given the extent of their packet inspection (their stack automatically deconstructs and bundles packets into component objects for inspection) the only way to defeat this is encryption prior to transmitting connection info, which means not being able to use any blocked sites before connecting to a secure channel. Some kind of VPN comes to mind, a decent VPN could do this well. Fug. Here's to hoping Tor can do it.
You should really have TLS/SSL for these forums, too. If you set that up, there's a slight possibility that users could configure their browsers to connect to a TLS proxy which somehow redirects to SS in such a way that the domain name isn't visible to the parental controls, and in such a way that if they try to visit the domain name of the proxy it doesn't return anything. This would all need quite a bit of testing though.
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(This post was last modified: 09-18-2015 05:12 PM by Absnt.)
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