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How was the Snowflake proxy used in 2023? (forum.torproject.org)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We can also break down users by country. The largest contingent of Snowflake users are in Iran, which has been the case since the Mahsa Amini protests in 2022 1. The graph shows also a large number of users apparently from the United States, but we believe that may be partly the result of geolocation errors, and many of them are actually from Iran. After Iran, the countries with the most Snowflake users are Russia and China.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Snowflake works for people that may not be able to get crypto or anonymous cash per letter. How would they pay the VPN?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Ah, I forgot that Monero in exchange for cash might not be an option here. Apologies, you're right. With that, I'd also like a comparison of security between these two approaches

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Snowflake is encrypted but I dont know with what protocol. TLS at least so at least as secure as the regular internet including all banking sites.

Yeah, Snowflake being tied to this one use case also prevents abuse. Imagine having "free VPN ran on my Computer for the Iranians", that would be abused like hell.