Re:Facebook was used as a proxy by web scraping bots
by Nextgrid on Thursday November 05, 2020 @08:19PM
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I wonder if a proxy could be made to encode data as video to put in a YouTube livestream. You'd still need an uplink but the upload bandwidth usage is a fraction of the download one for typical Internet usage.
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Re:Facebook was used as a proxy by web scraping bots
by userbinator on Friday November 06, 2020 @12:10AM
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Yes, that is definitely possible and might make for a fun project. Use stego to make the livestream look innocuous and apply heavy ECC, further resisting censorship and arousal of suspicion. I think this is the closest I've seen to a public implementation of that idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166332
You'd still need an uplink but the upload bandwidth usage is a fraction of the download one for typical Internet usage.
Perhaps the chat/comments (once again with heavy stego/encryption) would work?
Related and older idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid