Wa-tunnel
Infrastructure
network tunneling
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
3 positive, 30 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 38 comments about the project. Thread score -0.02.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
Objections
Risks getting WhatsApp accounts banned
From 2 comments
Yes, used different messages max sizes, with 2000 characters got the best speed but got the account banned, using 20000 is a great middle term and not banned for now, could get…
aleixrodriala on HNYes, in the own project there is a disclaimer that using this software might get your WhatsApp account banned so use with caution, and anyways is just a fun project for…
aleixrodriala on HN
Slow and limited throughput compared with DNS or ICMP tunnels
From 2 comments
I remember trying this (Also in Latin America with Zuckerberg's creepy old "internet.com" initiative to make his services free in the third world, which is a done and over with…
jamal-kumar on HNFun, but when the comparison is unlimited WhatsApp versus "not many gigabytes" of other data, my first question is what speed this goes. How long does it take to transfer a…
Dylan16807 on HN
Requests
Try encoding data as images for more bandwidth
From 1 comment
Could you try encoding data as images for better bandwidth (and probably worse latency)?
cyclotron3k on HN
Questions
Whether images are blocked on free WhatsApp on planes
From 2 comments
Images are often blocked on the free WhatsApp on airplanes
allanrbo on HNI was on a boat recently where WhatsApp was free to use, and you had to pay to use the rest of the internet. You could send and receive messages but attempting to send an image,…
codetrotter on HN
How encryption is decrypted by the tool
From 1 comment
One question.. if Whatsapp is encrypting data how are you able to decrypt the packet easily ?
cto_official on HN
Alternatives named
iodine DNS tunnel
From 1 comment
Yh it's awesome this project could run on termux without having to modify much or even iodine https://github.com/yarrick/iodine which is another awesome tool to avoid network…
aleixrodriala on HN
Wikipedia over WhatsApp project
From 1 comment
Nice! Any chance this was inspired by "Wikipedia over WhatsApp"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31463249
jdthedisciple on HN
facebook-tunnel by matiasinsaurralde
From 1 comment
I got the idea myself on a bar, did a quick look online and didnt find anything, later on when I had it built I found that 8 years ago this guy did a similar one:…
aleixrodriala on HN