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Why today's circumvention tools fail against shutdowns like Iran's (fixed entry points, learnable disguises, manual setup) and what the next generation must do instead: detect, decide, distribute, recover.

The long-form follow-up to the newsletter, on where circumvention breaks at the code level: bridges burned faster than they're replaced, and a Tor client that can detect blocking but not recover. It draws on Iran and China's Great Firewall and ends with five policy actions.