What would it take to provide VPN services/TOR to countries where

I should also add, how would you do it in a way that kept the people using it and maintaining it safe?

Think the same libertarian premise of a darknet market but instead of selling drugs you were peddling free internet as a humanitarian effort?

>>61645518
Wouldn't you need a new protocol. Or something which looks like http?

>>61645518
Tor does this kind of thing, it's called bridges.

>>61646287
What currently keeps a country like NK from preventing TOR usage then?

What kinda' protocol would be as secure if not moreso than TOR while remaining accessible to everyday people/people lacking access to information?

>>61646354
Well with NK its because they don't let ordinary citizens on the internet, and they kill you and your family if they catch you doing it. If you're willing to cut communications altogether there's not much any protocol can do.

Anyway you're gonna have to be more specific with what you're asking about. Greater usability pretty much inherently leads to less security. Tor has already made some security compromises in the name of usability, actually. Most prominently the basic architecture that tries to keep latency down. That lets you use things like voip but it inherently makes you vulnerable to traffic correlation attacks by an adversary (like an intelligence agency) that can see large parts of the network all at once.

>>61646463
I came across a Reddit discussion about 100 or so active Tor users from a few years ago. Someone mentioned that maybe they have their own server space that acts as a hub to the outside world. Basically I want to know what building a hub like that entails, how does it function, what kind of hardware would it need to ensure a flow of information to a walled off populace.

Basically I want to know how if you had the necessary funding, what it would take to establish a pipeline for these people to access basic information (unmonitored email, access to foreign news, etc) rather than things that seem more resource heavy (VoIP, torrenting).

More importantly, I want to know how you would keep the end user safe provided you had people on the ground in these countries that were willing to sacrifice their safety and wellbeing to maintaining and moving such a service around.

>>61646605
Sorry, I meant that it was a discussion about how 100 people inside NK were connected through Tor through a server/network that was in-country.

>>61646463
>Well with NK its because they don't let ordinary citizens on the internet

Somewhat dubious, but in one of the defectors interviews on Youtube, the defector told mobile calls were used to establish connection with the families back there. Of course, the calls can only happen through cell towers in China and both with the families back in NK they would have to be located pretty close the border. It's dubious because I haven't read of this before. There are however border towns on both sides so at least some signal communication can happen.

>>61646605
you'd want something with libreboot to keep out people trying to abuse the intel me.

>>61646605
>>61646622
They might be government-funded hackers.

>>61646605
Moot point because the .001% of the population that aren't dirt farmers are being watched 24/7 so they don't do exactly what you're planning.