🇮🇷 Update: Brief returns of internet access are driving spikes in Snowflake usage.
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Update: Brief returns of internet access are driving spikes in Snowflake usage. Please help us run more proxies if you can. 
️ snowflake.torproject.orgThe easiest ways to run Snowflake is by using Tor Browser, Orbot, or installing the browser add on in your current browser. Extra capacity helps people in Iran stay connected when the network comes back online.
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) -
Update: Brief returns of internet access are driving spikes in Snowflake usage. Please help us run more proxies if you can. ️ snowflake.torproject.org
The easiest ways to run Snowflake is by using Tor Browser, Orbot, or installing the browser add on in your current browser. Extra capacity helps people in Iran stay connected when the network comes back online.
Orbot saugt den Akku leer, zumindest bei mir auf dem Handy (Android). Auf dem Notebook im FF läuft es prima.
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Update: Brief returns of internet access are driving spikes in Snowflake usage. Please help us run more proxies if you can. ️ snowflake.torproject.org
The easiest ways to run Snowflake is by using Tor Browser, Orbot, or installing the browser add on in your current browser. Extra capacity helps people in Iran stay connected when the network comes back online.
@torproject how much extra data is to be expected from running snowflake?
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Update: Brief returns of internet access are driving spikes in Snowflake usage. Please help us run more proxies if you can. ️ snowflake.torproject.org
The easiest ways to run Snowflake is by using Tor Browser, Orbot, or installing the browser add on in your current browser. Extra capacity helps people in Iran stay connected when the network comes back online.
@torproject
Just do it please!
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Update: Brief returns of internet access are driving spikes in Snowflake usage. Please help us run more proxies if you can. ️ snowflake.torproject.org
The easiest ways to run Snowflake is by using Tor Browser, Orbot, or installing the browser add on in your current browser. Extra capacity helps people in Iran stay connected when the network comes back online.
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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. -
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Update: Brief returns of internet access are driving spikes in Snowflake usage. Please help us run more proxies if you can. ️ snowflake.torproject.org
The easiest ways to run Snowflake is by using Tor Browser, Orbot, or installing the browser add on in your current browser. Extra capacity helps people in Iran stay connected when the network comes back online.
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Update: Brief returns of internet access are driving spikes in Snowflake usage. Please help us run more proxies if you can. ️ snowflake.torproject.org
The easiest ways to run Snowflake is by using Tor Browser, Orbot, or installing the browser add on in your current browser. Extra capacity helps people in Iran stay connected when the network comes back online.
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How do clients know to connect to an instance of snowflake? Does the server 'phone home' somewhere to list itself as available? -
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How do clients know to connect to an instance of snowflake? Does the server 'phone home' somewhere to list itself as available?@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) -
@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)
@Shark @torproject
Thank you.I'm just wondering, once a standalone instance of snowflake is running on a server and the ports have been opened up, how is that instance discovered?
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How do clients know to connect to an instance of snowflake? Does the server 'phone home' somewhere to list itself as available?@sb @torproject Snowflake clients and snowflake proxies find each other via a broker:
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@sb @torproject Snowflake clients and snowflake proxies find each other via a broker:
@rebootdeluxe @torproject
Ah, perfect - exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. -
@Shark @torproject
Thank you.I'm just wondering, once a standalone instance of snowflake is running on a server and the ports have been opened up, how is that instance discovered?
@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)
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How do clients know to connect to an instance of snowflake? Does the server 'phone home' somewhere to list itself as available?@sb @torproject Bitchat also uses the tor network by default. So running a Snowflake proxy node will support it as well.
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Update: Brief returns of internet access are driving spikes in Snowflake usage. Please help us run more proxies if you can. ️ snowflake.torproject.org
The easiest ways to run Snowflake is by using Tor Browser, Orbot, or installing the browser add on in your current browser. Extra capacity helps people in Iran stay connected when the network comes back online.
@torproject I'm running the plugin in Brave browser since approximately 2 years or so. But just set up a permanent proxy node on my VPS as well.
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@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@sb @torproject found something
"Proxies poll the broker periodically, using ordinary HTTPS requests."
https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/snowflake/ -
@sb @torproject found something
"Proxies poll the broker periodically, using ordinary HTTPS requests."
https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/snowflake/@sb @torproject also snowflake works behind NAT, there is no need for opening a port. -
@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 @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.@OndrejZizka @Ann_Effes @torproject
For LINUX:
- it is open source
- it runs in the context of Firefox
- it does not need any additional rightsFor WINDOWS:
- everything is always not secure
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@torproject how much extra data is to be expected from running snowflake?
@trrektor @torproject statistics of the first hour after setting up a new proxy node today:
In the last 1h0m0s, there were 21 completed successful connections. Traffic Relayed ↓ 15910 KB (4.42 KB/s), ↑ 8912 KB (2.48 KB/s).So, I don't think you will really notice any impact.
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@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.@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
