Streisand
Infrastructure
self-hosted server setup
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
8 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 3 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Clear, well-thought-out approach to automating anti-censorship servers
From 3 comments
...but how would people know when it happens if the information is censored before it can get out?!
nnnnni on HNI just walked through the live demo eof provided (thanks). It looks very promising and well thought out. How many users could the smallest Amazon box handle in a real world…
heyalexej on HNThis kind of work is so important to offset the threat of complete top-down control. Thank you!
aridiculous on HN
Works on cheap Amazon micro instances
From 1 comment
It works great on micro instances. That's actually the default option for new EC2 instances that it creates.
jlund on HN
Objections
README was unclear about what the project does
From 2 comments
Can you clarify what this does? Even after reading the readme it's not clear to me what it does or what the use case is. And the phrase "silence censorship, automate the effect"…
ritchiea on HNThanks for clarifying. That does make sense. I didn't mean to be too critical of your "Silence censorship" tagline, it is clever. But it is frustrating when something feels…
ritchiea on HN
Server operators' names and payment details tie traffic to them, so it does not anonymize users
From 1 comment
Probably worth pointing out that this wont anonymize your traffic — instead of coming from your home IP address, it will come from the IP address of a server registered against…
paulannesley on HN
Default configurations may not be secure or may enable profiling
From 1 comment
I like the concept, but I am troubled by the idea of people running cookie-cutter scripts to set up systems which are then left in charge of real-world anonymity. Could the suite…
serf on HN
Requests
Support for cheap VPS providers with limited port ranges
From 1 comment
A configuration for cheap VPS providers who provide a limited range of ports on one IPv4 address (plus one or more IPv6 addresses) would be great. See: http://lowendspirit.com/…
georgiapeach on HN
Let users choose which services to install
From 1 comment
This is similar to a project I worked on a while ago, Lahana[1] but on steroids. I like the approach, although it requires a little more knowhow to set up. What would be really…
iuguy on HN
Add port knocking or fwknop for hiding services
From 2 comments
Just a thought: in order to make these servers more undercover, you can bundle in a port-knocking daemon (knockd) and have all ports initially closed. This setting should be…
thegeomaster on HNMaybe you should look into the more secure fwknop as an option instead of knockd.
kolev on HN
Questions
Does it automatically detect censorship and spin up servers?
From 1 comment
When you say "If a country starts censoring the Internet, more servers will spring up in response." can you confirm that you (or I, as the person running the servers/service)…
click170 on HN
Will it get around the Great Firewall of China?
From 1 comment
Question is will this circumvent the great firewall of China
nomnombunty on HN
Alternatives named
Lahana
From 1 comment
This is similar to a project I worked on a while ago, Lahana[1] but on steroids. I like the approach, although it requires a little more knowhow to set up. What would be really…
iuguy on HN
Tor hidden service deployment tools
From 1 comment
Awesome. I'm actually building a company right now around an almost identical product. We aren't open sourcing it yet but we will eventually. Would love to talk about this with…
chatmasta on HN