• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    That’s what integrity checks are for, so that no one along the path can edit what you say before it actually gets published.

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      3 days ago

      That’s rather missing the point, an integrity check doesn’t solve the fact that to communicate with anyone, you have to do it through giant corporations pipes.

      An integrity check doesn’t help when an ISP have straight blocked your protocols traffic, like Comcast previously did with bittorrent.

      Can we stop sucking down the preachings of an idiot like Jack Dorsey? We don’t actually have net neutrality, so it’s totally within their current rights to just block traffic they don’t like.

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        2 days ago

        Almost any protocol can be wrapped in any other protocol. You could, say, use bit torrent by encoding the packets and embedding the data in valid png files, then transporting them over http. As long as both sides understand the wrapping it’ll work just fine.

        I’ve even seen http tunneled over DNS queries in order to completely bypass firewalls.