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What I think: Thiel saw an opening in both Gawker's reputation and the legal system, and made a deadly move. And to clarify, I am not equating this case to censorship, but rather t…

First of all, I should admit I live nowhere near SV, nowhere near US, but in a land where censorship is the norm, China. I have been following reports on Thiel vs Gawker for the pa…

As a js library maintainer and contributor, I do find these arguments flawed: > There is a culture in the JavaScript community that “types don’t matter” I don't think that's the ca…

Think only Chinese iOS Apps are affected? Think again, because your favorite app might just be outsourced to Chinese developers. Apps like Mercury, WinZip, PDFReader are reported t…

To add context: http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2015/09/novel-mal... http://www.wired.com/2015/09/hack-brief-malware-sneaks-chine... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archiv…

Totally speculation, but maybe related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10115641

My speculation: as Sep. 3rd, the massive military parade in Beijing draw closer, Chinese government appears to be knocking at open source developers' doors, asking for repo removal…

Actually this is classic daily life of a chinese netizen: you are never quite sure what the cause of your network woes is (not without spending time digging into it). Is it due to …

Not all VPN services are censored, and not all VPN protocol triggers the reset. But you can bet whatever you get for free (thus likely popular), will get banned soon enough. OpenVP…

And to add more context: Shadowsocks isn't just a tool nowadays, it's a group of applications that target both developers and common folks. People have built successful VPN service…

SSH still work, but it's not designed to give a high throughput, so ideally one would not want to watch a youtube clip over SSH. And DPI can identify and kill SSH session when ther…

I have written a brief summary of issues, as a tweetstorm: https://twitter.com/bitinn/status/581350026217013248