I know you are one of those who downvoted this post to suppress the flow of information. I hope you are happy being the 'smart one' on the side of the Mullahs.
Probably related but it is more accessible than Othernet for people in Iran right now. You only need
- Digital Satellite Receiver (Set-top Box) with USB port to record TV programs
- USB Flash Drive
- A device to decode the video
Demanding absolute proof from a country with zero transparency is a tall order; the information vacuum is a feature of these shutdowns, not a bug. Even if we had definitive proof of traffic patterns, the goalposts would just move to: 'How do you know this was a Iran's government action?'
Relaying and scattering traffic across neighboring peers (and handshakes via multicast DNS, for example) would fix a lot of the issues you'll get with Briar, but I guess that would imply a refactor of the codebase.
To clarify I added ""technically" to the question: My immediate goal is finding a way to reach relatives during this blackout. More importantly, how to build a resilient, long-term communication fail-safe so we aren't cut off when we are connected and the next shutdown happens.
The blackout itself isn't the primary issue; it's the information vacuum it creates. I haven't been able to reach my relatives for 104 hours, and that lack of transparency, not the lack of connectivity, is what is truly terrifying.