[HN Gopher] How Iranian diaspora is using old-school tech to fig...
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       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?
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           | or is jamming typically done from drones / airplanes to jam a
           | slanted conical region below them?
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           | 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?
        
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