[HN Gopher] How Iranian diaspora is using old-school tech to fig... ___________________________________________________________________ How Iranian diaspora is using old-school tech to fight internet shutdown at home Author : rfreytag Score : 31 points Date : 2020-09-25 02:26 UTC (20 hours ago) (HTM) web link (restofworld.org) (TXT) w3m dump (restofworld.org) | BelleOfTheBall wrote: | What a fascinating way to fight a totalitarian crackdown. The | article doesn't seem to talk about its feasibility against the | government though. Is there no way they could stop it, bar | actually damaging people's satellite dishes? | amiruci2 wrote: | They resort to jamming at times: https://ir.usembassy.gov/the- | iranian-regime-continues-jammin... | https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203501304577088... | DoctorOetker wrote: | can satellite dishes be redesigned such that they don't just | have a directional peak in sensitivity, but also a controlled | suitably low maximum sensitivity in other directions? | | or is jamming typically done from drones / airplanes to jam a | slanted conical region below them? | | when they physically remove dishes, do they discover them | typically visually (so they just need to be hidden in a RF | transparent box say plastic) or do they already use direction | finding on local oscillators? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-09-25 23:00 UTC)