US defense secretary circumvents the official communications equipment
https://www.electrospaces.net/2025/04/how-us-defense-secretary-hegseth.html
#HackerNews #USDefenseSecretary #Circumvention #Communications #Equipment #SecurityIssues #MilitaryTech
Tough to forbid it - but Canada could remove the DRM anti-circumvention parts of our copyright law that were added solely to satisfy the USA and its copyright monopolists.
Then Canadian companies could make, and you could buy and use, a teeny little HDCP-stripper box so every TV would work with any device.
Block Mirror: Dystopian Site-Blocking Triggers Circumvention Innovation
#OpinionArticles #circumvention #siteblocking #blackmirror #Spain #iptv
I'm not sure how I missed these actually being passed and given assent. It's not a full repeal of the user/consumer-hostile anti-circumvention law, but between them they allow diagnosis, repair, and interoperability between systems. It also explicitly lets you do it for someone other than yourself, which is critical - existing exceptions have generally only meant you could break DRM for yourself, meaning 99% of people could never do it.
It's fantastic.
https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2024/lois-statutes/YX4-2024-26.pdf
etc...
Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic) blog post for today is a speech he gave last night at the University of Toronto, the annual Ursula Franklin Lecture at Innis College.
It's worth reading:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/
It connects the dots between anti-circumvention copyright laws like the USA's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (and the Canadian copycat legislation) and the enshittification that ensues when Big Tech does ... well, practically anything. There's a specific example he uses that is horrifying. He also shows exactly how Big Tech has escaped what he identifies as the usual four factors for keeping the worst instincts of companies in check.
I agree with him that we should annul the anti-circumvention law on the books, and would go further in saying that we should explicitly enshrine in law the rights to alter, repair, remove etc. any functionality of products and services that we choose to use. I was one of the original 6,000 Canadians who submitted comments warning against the implementation of these restrictions to our government at the time, and my feelings in support of this are stronger than ever.
Give it a read.
Attached image: I think this is probably overdue.
#CoryDoctorow #DMCA #circumvention #AntiCircumvention #DRM #enshittification #e14n #speech #UniversityOfToronto #InnisCollege #DigitalLock #RightToRepair #BigTech #Google #Facebook #Amazon #Microsoft #Canada #tech #software
Spot the speculative circumvention of text censorship & blocking, and consider how this will enable online harms as well as online helps
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112399
#OnlineSafety #censorship #circumvention
Spot the speculative circumvention of text censorship & blocking, and consider how this will enable online harms as well as online helps
Speech is a great freedom, and it will be adapted to communicate even in the most limiting of circumstances. The actual issue is one of intent. Most online safety legislation unwisely ignores this challenge.
Cory Doctorow's blog entry today:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/13/wanting-it-badly/
... is well worth reading. All of it is good, but I think the part discussing the evils of DRM is particularly in need of reading by many people. FWIW, I was one of the ~6k people who wrote to the Canadian government to try to get them to not pass an anti-circumvention bill. Unsuccessfully.
#CoryDoctorow #Pluralistic #DRM #Canada #DMCA #RightToRepair #circumvent #circumvention #AntiCircumvention
yeah, #deltachat cares for #encryption #circumvention #proxy #pfs #securityaudits #pgp #zerotrust #securemessaging and the like ... but did you know next #iOS version will have ADAPTIVE ICONS!!!11!!ONE1!
Canada’s new right-to-repair exemptions to copyright law are as useful as a chocolate teapot
A couple of weeks ago, Walled Culture wrote about the deeply unsatisfactory process for obtaining exemptions to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s ban on the circumvention of copyright protection measures. As the post explained, meaningful and useful exemptions are blocked by the copyright industry as a matter of course, and only the tiniest and most trivial ones are graciously […]
#canada #circumvention #diagnosis #dmca #interoperabiliity #maintence #rightToRepair #tpm
How an “absolutist position” seeks to block even minor copyright exemptions, and usually succeeds
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed in the US in 1998, at an early stage of the shift to a digital world, with little concern for the serious harm it would cause as everything became suffused with software. The problem is that the DMCA prevents circumvention of copyright protection measures (generally known as “digital rights management”, or DRM), even if the purpose of […]
#absolutistPosition #circumvention #dmca #DRM #esa #exemptions #iceCream #ifixit #mcdonalds #publicKnowledge #rightToRepair #section1201 #usCopyrightOffice #videoGames
Several countries have recently blocked Signal.
To help in this situation, Signal provides a built-in censorship circumvention feature.
https://signal.org/blog/proxy-please/
Please help if you can: To help make our circumvention efforts as effective as possible, we invite those who are willing and able to set up their own proxy servers to do so by following the instructions here
From 07 Aug: ISPs Hijack Cloudflare/Google DNS Requests, Ending Site-Blocking Workarounds - To the average internet user, DNS translates a domain into an IP address to make browsing as simple ... https://torrentfreak.com/isps-hijack-cloudflare-google-dns-requests-ending-site-blocking-workarounds-240807/ #anti-piracy #circumvention #dns #malaysia #proxy #site-blocking
ISPs Hijack Cloudflare/Google DNS Requests, Ending Site-Blocking Workarounds
#circumvention #SiteBlocking #siteblocking #Anti-Piracy #Malaysia #proxy #DNS
EU toughens Belarus sanctions to curb Russia evasion https://www.euractiv.com/section/belarus/news/eu-toughens-belarus-sanctions-to-curb-russia-evasion/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Belarus #circumvention #EUsanctions #Russia
and under almost every post of the article that #mozilla removes #censorship #circumvention tools at the request of russia's #censor:
... someone justifying it with
"those are the laws of the country, do you want companies to choose which laws to obey".
my personal opinion: generally, I agree that the answer should be "no"; but there's an important distinction there:
it's absolutely wrong to just obey laws that are against #HumanRights!
pulling out is definitely the better option.
FireChat was a tool for revolution. Then it disappeared.
https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/firechat-was-a-tool-for-revolution-then-it-disappeared/
The Media Show, Behind the Information Iron Curtain (BBC audio)
Journalists and specialists discuss the availability of news and information around the world amidst censorship and controls on internet content and access. They also discuss circumvention of these restrictions with VPNs and TOR including mention of a BBC TOR presence.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001yqqg
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yqqg
#internet #censorship #journalism #news #information #circumvention #vpn #tor #bbc #radio #audio
https://greatfire.org remains one of the most impressive, resilient, and important anti-censorship projects I know. Zero fluff. 100% innovative, direct, on-the-ground action that actually makes a difference. Something that's frustratingly rare.
A491598198/VpnHood: Undetectable Fast Portable VPN
https://github.com/A491598198/VpnHood
"Alternatieve weg voor omzeiling en privacy!
Ondetecteerbare VPN voor gewone gebruikers en experts. VpnHood is een oplossing om geavanceerde firewalls te omzeilen en diepe pakketinspectie te vermijden. VpnHood is volledig vanaf nul gemaakt in C#.
Krijg VpnHood!
Het is beschikbaar voor Windows en Android. De iOS-client moet nog gereed worden gemaakt!
Gebruik alternatieve downloadlinks.
Kenmerken van de client
Eenvoudige installatie: gewoon installeren en op 'verbinden' drukken
Ondetecteerbaar op privé-IP's
Snel
Tunneling opgesplitst per apps & landen
Windows (x64) 10, 11
Android, Android TV
IPv6*
Kenmerken van de server
Geen netwerkconfiguratie of kennis vereist
Geen beheerdersprivileges vereist
Hot Restart (Gebruikerssessies worden niet gesloten bij herstart)
Ingebouwd gebruikersbeheer
Ingebouwde NAT met nul configuratie
NetScan Protector
Windows (x64) 10, 11, of Windows Server
Linux
Kenmerken voor ontwikkelaars
Open source (LGPL-licentie)
Volledig in .NET
Hoog aanpasbaar
Eenvoudig in te bedden in je .NET-app
Uitbreidbaar gebruikersbeheer via REST API
Componentgebaseerd via NuGet-pakketten
Open de oplossing met Visual Studio en bouw
IPv6-ondersteuning
VpnHood ondersteunt IPv6, maar op Windows moet je al op het IPv6-netwerk zitten, zodat al je netwerkverkeer door VpnHood wordt getunneld. Op Windows heb je geen toegang tot IPv6-sites als je netwerk niet al geconfigureerd is voor het gebruik van IPv6. In Android daarentegen krijg je een IPv6-adres en toegang tot alle IPv6-sites, ongeacht de configuratie van je netwerk.
FAQ & Documenten
Raadpleeg onze Wiki voor de VpnHood-documenten.
Hoe werkt VpnHood?
Kan een netwerkaanbieder VpnHood blokkeren?
Wijzigingen
Meer...
Ondersteuning
Je bent altijd welkom!
Voel je vrij om een nieuwe discussie te starten op GitHub-discussies.
Meld bugs of vraag functies in GitHub-problemen.
Ondersteunde servers
Windows Linux
Speciale dank aan
SharpPcap: Volledig beheerde, cross-platform .NET-bibliotheek voor het vastleggen van pakketten van live- en op bestand gebaseerde apparaten.
WinDivert: Een pakket voor het vastleggen en omleiden van pakketten in de gebruikersmodus voor Windows.
EmbedIO: Een kleine, cross-platform, op module gebaseerde webserver voor .NET.
Advanced Installer: Installer-tools voor Windows."
#VpnHood #Privacy #VPN #NetworkSecurity #Circumvention #FirewallBypass #DeepPacketInspection #Windows #Android #iOS #IPv6Support #OpenSource #DotNET #GitHub #ServerSecurity #NetworkManagement #NatTraversal #NetScanProtector #DeveloperTools #GitHubDiscussions #BugReport #FeatureRequest #WindowsServer #Linux #SharpPcap #WinDivert #EmbedIO #AdvancedInstaller
