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The :poop: ideas (I thought might work at one point, but no longer consider
worth building) are at [BADIDEAS.md](BADIDEAS.md).
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- [A Survey of the Electron Supply Chain](#a-survey-of-the-electron-supply-chain)
- [2fa.wiki](#2fawiki)
- [Boardgame Rulebook Translation Guide :construction:](#boardgame-rulebook-translation-guide-construction)
- [Probe the Great Indian Firewall](#probe-the-great-indian-firewall)
- [A Practical MRNL Service (Mobile Number Revocation List)](#a-practical-mrnl-service-mobile-number-revocation-list)
- [Licence](#licence)
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avoid confusion between various games using different translations for common
boardgaming terms.
## Probe the Great Indian Firewall
The Great Indian Firewall is what blocks Indian Government websites from being accessed outside of India.
This is bad for multiple reasons, including accessibility, archivability, and usability. There's multiple
ways this is applied, inculding:
1. GeoDNS based blocks (DNS resolves to a blocked IP outside India)
2. IP Address based blocks (Requests from an ASN outside India are dropped)
3. Block ASNs from Hosting Service Providers
Take an existing corpus of Indian Government websites (such as [mine](https://gist.github.com/captn3m0/4f3da8f07fe884e62bfab3ac85616936))
, and probe it in multiple ways to detect differences between the
"normal response" (What you'd get from an Indian residential IP) and a "blocked response" (what you see from outside India).
Take care to account for residential v/s cloud IPs, since those are commonly blocked.
The outcome should be a self-updating report/dashboard that documents the various sites that are blocked outside India.
## A Practical MRNL Service (Mobile Number Revocation List)
**Note**: [TRAI](https://trai.gov.in/) (India's Telecom Regulator) publishes a [Mobile Number Revocation List][mrnl] every month. It consists of any mobile