[liberationtech] What could we at Liberationtech do to help pro-democracy HK activists protest China's new security law?

[Richard Brooks]

Current crowdsourced rankings of GFW resilient VPNs:

https://cc.greatfire.org/en

Never heard of Torjan.


On 5/28/20 6:19 AM, Martin Johnson wrote:
> Tor does not work in China. There is a bridge available that is supposed to run over Microsoft
> Azure, but in my experience it doesn't work either. Tor has very few users in China.
> 
> Psiphon does work but tends to perform at below-average speed.
> 
> Lantern has a long record of performing quite well in China. In addition I would recommend our own
> circumvention tool - FreeBrowser - for Android users.
> 
> On 5/27/20 2:55 PM, Sandy Harris wrote:
>> Anything that helps users bypass the Great Firewall will also help Hong Kong, certainly by letting
>> people on the mainland get uncensored info instead of just the Party Line & possibly by preventing
>> monitoring of HK communications. Tor & Psiphon are the best-known such projects, but there are lots
>> of others.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psiphon
>>
>> Could we help out by getting Tor, Psiphon and/or other tools incorporated into Linux router projects
>> and/or Freedom Box?
>> https://freedomboxfoundation.org/
>>
>> Could we go further? One of the GFW's blocking methods is to send out bogus TCP reset packets in
>> both directions to break the connection. Should all routers connecting to China drop those packets?
>> Should end user systems like Linux distros have an easily set option to ignore them? Anyone want to
>> write a Best Current Practice RFC?
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