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facebook-tunnel
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matiasinsaurralde / facebook-tunnel

facebook-tunnel

Tunneling Internet traffic over Facebook chat.

Communication & Social
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12Distinct people
13Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.3KGitHub stars
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What it is

Tunneling Internet traffic over Facebook chat.

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year13 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-02-18 04:59:48 UTC to 2022-11-12 14:33:25 UTC.

02462014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

13 sources
concert-gilled·Aug 14, 2019
I remember someone writing a proxy that ran over Facebook, maybe it was specifically chat, in response to that. However, I am not able to find it right now. edit: I found it here[0]. > The idea of this project is to tunnel Internet traffic through Facebook chat (packets are sent as base64), the main component is tuntap and also the Google's Gumbo parser which does the interaction with Facebook (login, send/receive messages, etc.). [0] https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel
In Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs
miduil·Mar 15, 2015
As far as I understood: - They are using virtual network kernel device (TUN/TAP, https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel/blob/ma... ) - encode it as base64 - communicate with the http/web facebook client https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel/blob/ma... Between that they do authentication things at facebook with "gumbo". And later on everything the other way round at the server side. So if you GET google.com your traffic goes through a virtual ethernet like device. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/tuntap.t... There is no cryptography involved, they could try to use openvpn to enable this feature. https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/BridgingAndRoutin...
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