Show HN: Streisand – Silence censorship, automate the effect
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HN comment orderCan 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" is confusing since censorship is an attempt to silence others. I am familiar with the Streisand effect, where an attempt to hide information serves to publicize it. Does this library propagate secure, encrypted servers? So if you feel in danger of being censored you can quickly spread…
Streisand is a good idea, but I don't believe users want 500 services running on their VPN gateway. Most of these protocols require a specific client, like OpenVPN. This is a 'kitchen sink' collection. TrailOfBits released their ansible scripts for StrongS/WAN, which has sensible secure defaults (IPSec using AES-GCM only). They are calling the project algo. https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
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| 2014-07-24 | Show HN: Streisand – Silence censorship, automate the effectFirst breakout · Best thread | jlund | 234 | 52 |
| 2015-12-21 | Streisand: Silence censorship. Automate the effect | djvdorp | 3 | 0 |
| 2016-01-18 | Streisand: silence censorship, automate the effect | p4bl0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-06-01 | Streisand: Silence censorship. Automate the effect | subliminalpanda | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-06-02 | Streisand | obtino | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-07-30 | Streisand: Silence censorship. Automate the effect | DyslexicAtheist | 2 | 0 |
| 2017-03-30 | Ansible playbooks for installing OpenVPN, IPsec, Tor, etc. on popular cloudsLatest 20+ point return | kevlar1818 | 160 | 31 |