🇮🇷 Update: Brief returns of internet access are driving spikes in Snowflake usage.

[ann_effes@berlin.social]

@joevan @torproject

Found it. But I do know for certain, that many folks do such stuff if they find a clickable link in the post … and if not "they will look into it later"

[cyphercryptic_reboot@defcon.social]

@torproject the web page doesn't give a lot of detail, even in the faq section. Tor browser (which i use) says it's "ready to use" on the page, but zero info on how to activate and host a snowflake in Tor browser like you can with firefox extension.

[steve_zeke@freeradical.zone]

@torproject

I've been running this in #Firefox for 3 years since I listened to a talk by its original developer, Serene, at the World Ethical Data Forum in 2022.

It is completely unobtrusive. Here is a good explainer from @eff

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/snowflake-makes-it-easy-anyone-fight-censorship

Serene also has an interesting story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serene_(pianist)

#music #software #privacy #activism

[sgs@det.social]

@torproject

Orbot saugt den Akku leer, zumindest bei mir auf dem Handy (Android). Auf dem Notebook im FF läuft es prima.

[trrektor@ieji.de]

@torproject how much extra data is to be expected from running snowflake?

[freigeist62@nrw.social]

@torproject
Just do it please!

[shadowdancer@mstdn.social]

@torproject
I operate, and have for years already, a regular relay. Is that of any help? I might be able to fire up another one, albeit with a rather limited bandwidth.

[nbloglinks@indieweb.social]

@torproject try BitChat: https://indieweb.social/@nbloglinks/115960655684224625

[shark@miniwa.moe]

@sb @torproject we have to connect to a broker, which gives us an IP address of an active proxy. The broker itself is domain fronted behind another big website (like bunny.net, cdn77, these two currently work on MCI, in my region at least)

[rebootdeluxe@infosec.exchange]

@sb @torproject Snowflake clients and snowflake proxies find each other via a broker:

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/wikis/Technical%20Overview

[shark@miniwa.moe]

@sb @torproject I'm not sure exactly how, but maybe because snowflake proxies are used as entry nodes, broker discovers them the same way that TOR entry nodes are discovered (which I also don't know how)

maybe tomorrow I'll start reading on it a bit

[shark@miniwa.moe]

@sb @torproject found something
"Proxies poll the broker periodically, using ordinary HTTPS requests."
https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/snowflake/

[shark@miniwa.moe]

@sb @torproject also snowflake works behind NAT, there is no need for opening a port.

[ondrejzizka@mastodon.social]

@joevan @Ann_Effes @torproject Are we talking about security here?
Having this as a browser extension, next to my banking, email, docs and all, sounds a little crazy. This should be a process running under its own user.

[joevan@mastodon.social]

@OndrejZizka @Ann_Effes @torproject

For LINUX:

- it is open source
- it runs in the context of Firefox
- it does not need any additional rights

For WINDOWS:

- everything is always not secure

[joevan@mastodon.social]

@OndrejZizka @Ann_Effes @torproject

But if you are concerned: Buy a used Raspberry Pi, install the OS and Docker. Run Snowflake in a docker container:

https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/standalone/docker/

20 to 30 bucks and 30 minutes to install everything