🎵 We gotta get out of this place 🎵
The blockathon is a virtual and portable network environment that simulates censorship and Internet shutdowns in a controlled, wireless environment. The gateway runs numerous filtering techniques, currently using the OpenGFW project, as adopted and adapted by eQualitie for the purposes of testing circumvention software and peer-to-peer communication services.
The Blockathon presents controlled and gamified scenarios to allow for real world testing of circumvention technologies and to discover new methods of traffic obfuscation; novel bootstrapping techniques and other ways to bypass network restrictions.
Challenges
- Easy Mode
- Airplane Mode
- Encrypted traffic blocking Mode
- Mystery Challenge
- Propose your own!
..one of the participants had figured out that since example.org was resolving in the browser — it meant DNS was also running (port 53, protocol UDP). They tunneled an OpenVPN connection over port 53 and were able to connect
 to a server and get out! Another participant used a similar strategy 
with the Iodine library.
One escape route from the splinternet was discovered during the Brussels conference
