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by gary_0 1054 days ago
They could block Snowflakes with IPs from networks in unsafe countries, but that is trivially bypassed by the attacker just buying VPSs (or botnet nodes) in a freer country.

Skimming the Technical Overview[0], I don't see anything about mitigating the risks you mention.

The purpose of Snowflake seems to be to circumvent blocking of Tor, not to prevent detection of using Tor. It takes advantage of "Domain Fronting" and WebRTC to accomplish this.

[0] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-...

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> that is trivially bypassed by the attacker just buying VPSs (or botnet nodes) in a freer country

A.K.A. "living off the economic land"