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	by qwerty456127 3022 days ago
	AFAIK the fact of TOR usage is rather easy to detect. AFAIK (from some news here on HN) you can get SWATed and arrested for a mere suspicion (e.g a false positive by an automated traffic analysis system) of using an end-to-end encrypting messenger or even Twitter in Turkey. I doubt it is legal and safe to use TOR in such countries. We need something that is harder to detect on the client ISP side.

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> AFAIK the fact of TOR usage is rater easy to detect.

That's why I said: "Then use meek-amazon as a pluggable transport which should work." meek-amazon makes your traffic look like you're talking to:

With the snowflake pluggable transport (only available with Linux and Mac alphas for now) the traffic looks like WebRTC.

You can read more about them here:

> "We need something that is harder to detect on the client ISP side."

That's what Telex[1][2] is designed to do. Too bad the project seems to have stalled.

it is by no means foolproof and won't get around a deep packet inspection/flow analysis system, but this is why obfsproxy exists:

But be sure not to use the default bundled obfs4 bridges, they're known.