Comment by Retr0id
1 day ago
I've been thinking about building an actually-ethical residential proxy system, for censorship-evasion purposes.
The internet in a growing number of countries is censored, but different content categories are censored in each jurisdiction. Many sites and services also block known VPNs (i.e. non-residential IPs), so that doesn't work as a bypass in all cases.
I have trusted friends in other countries, so by mutual agreement we could set up wireguard links for each other to use (subject to agreed terms). It just needs some way to intelligently route traffic depending on which jurisdictions will allow which requests (i.e. "which is the lowest-latency link that will allow this request").
> I've been thinking about building an actually-ethical residential proxy system, for censorship-evasion purposes.
That thing already exist and is called Tor Snowflake.
That's not the same as what I'm suggesting.
The issue with this is in many authoritarian nations they will see your Wireguard link and block it. Or even knock at your door.
And the concept of web of trust and signing parties just gets more and more valuable for each day!