Bypassing Censorship of Indian ISPs

In the modern world with encryption all around I was fascinated by how some ISPs are able to censor content on the web. Whether or not censoring is good or bad could be a debate for another day. Today, I will share the technical details around censorship and a technique used by ISPs called Deep packet Inspection (DPI). It all started when I could not reach raw.githubusercontent.com using my ISP. Being an engineer I was curious to understand how they are able to censor content and how to potentially bypass it (because raw.githubsercontent.com usually hosts GitHub scripts which I was using for home lab automation). ...

November 17, 2024 · 2 min · 319 words · coder3101