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Whoo-hoo! Set up a free wi-fi node outside of a tech conference (perhaps with cheap pastries for conference goers), routed through a proxy in Iran. Don't need to decode https or anything - assuming you can proxy https through Iran.

Then watch as bunches of companies are blocked from GitHub.

If the Iranian government wanted to have fun with US laws, they could totally set this up. And it wouldn't even be illegal.



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