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.

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.

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

It's better than SMS, isn't it? In these situations perfection is not viable.

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.

Yes they should work in these scenarios but requires mass adoption to run a proper mesh network infrastructure.

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).

Thanks, yeah but illegal usually don't mean unobtainable

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.

> for what?

? A totalitarian regime doesn't need much motivation to have people killed, to the point where even having knowledge or reading the wrong thing will have you put on a list.

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.

Yeah, also a good source of getting information from the world in full internet shutdowns.