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Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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Post by loser777 »

mrb wrote: post #54

I was visiting China recently (my first time there). I thought bypassing The Great Firewall was going to be as simple as an "ssh -D" SOCKS setup, or a "ssh -w" tunnel. Oh boy, I was wrong. If you try this, or even a basic OpenVPN setup, you will quickly find out your VPN works fine for about 5 minutes, but then latency increases to 5sec, 10sec, 30sec(!), and then everything times out. After some research I read onlin…

Very interesting... I was just in China recently and was sshing into a box I had in the states for an impromptu SOCKS proxy. I did notice that things would work fine for up to an hour or so before things started bogging down. I would start seeing "channel x: open failed..." errors. However, closing the session and reconnecting would fix the problem... until it started lagging out again.

I thought it was just a consequence of being on spotty < 5mbps(ADSL?) connections. The internet situation was barely tolerable for a few weeks stay; I can't imagine what living in these conditions 24/7/365 is like.

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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Post by riobard »

Rangi42 wrote: post #10

This wasn't a thorough deletion. The shadowsocks-iOS project has been switched to the 'rm' branch, but the 'master' branch still contains all the source code: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/tree/master There's also a downloadable 2.6.3 release with a built .dmg and source code: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/releases Even if it does get completely removed, a duplicate exists on GitLab:…

That mostly a side effect of GitHub's caching mechanism. It's all gone now.

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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Post by ommunist »

alexchen wrote: post #43
brobinson wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe China? There's a bit of Chinese in the author's other repos: https://github.com/clowwindy?tab=repositories

Yes it's china, because chinese government fears that the citizens who lived in china know about the truth of government's corruption.

Dear Alex, although this may sound like a revelation, but governments do not fear. They are fictitious entities. Non-humans. One may think about them as a software.

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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Post by captainmuon »

mrb wrote: post #54

I was visiting China recently (my first time there). I thought bypassing The Great Firewall was going to be as simple as an "ssh -D" SOCKS setup, or a "ssh -w" tunnel. Oh boy, I was wrong. If you try this, or even a basic OpenVPN setup, you will quickly find out your VPN works fine for about 5 minutes, but then latency increases to 5sec, 10sec, 30sec(!), and then everything times out. After some research I read onlin…

I've had almost the opposite experience. VPN sort of worked, but I could not open a single HTTPS connection. The VPN problems I had I could trace to a bad WiFi connection (I had to lower my MTU and it worked fine).

Now, on previous trips I experienced what you mentioned. It seemed really like there was some machine learning going on, and after using a VPN for a while the connection would get bad. But I guess it might not be machine learning, there might just be a huge number of humans watching your traffic - which would explain why it is so inconsistent.

The thing that worked best for me is just using ssh -D (on most days). Our workplace uses ssh a lot for secure communication with outside china, so that couldn't possibly be blocked without hindering our work (and I believe 'they' have no interest in that). So whenever I had to access something for work that was sillily blocked (argh gmail), I just used the ssh connection that was open anyway.

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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Post by berkut »

mrb wrote: post #54

I was visiting China recently (my first time there). I thought bypassing The Great Firewall was going to be as simple as an "ssh -D" SOCKS setup, or a "ssh -w" tunnel. Oh boy, I was wrong. If you try this, or even a basic OpenVPN setup, you will quickly find out your VPN works fine for about 5 minutes, but then latency increases to 5sec, 10sec, 30sec(!), and then everything times out. After some research I read onlin…

Back in 2006/2007 when I was doing web development, I knew a few people at F5 and Zeus Technology (developers of application firewalls at the time), and they said The Great Firewall was using loads of F5 tech with deep packet inspection for all data.

I assume 9 years later (don't know what the modern tech for web stuff is these day, but I assume encryption plays a key part) they're doing just as intrusive inspection and filtering of data.

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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Post by empyrical »

medecau wrote: post #57

https://github.com/Long-live-shadowsocks/shadowsocks The original repositories have been/are being reset. (Some branches were not removed.) Non-obvious ways to search for forks as the network graph is unavailable for larger projects. https://github.com/search?utf8=&q=shadowsocks+language%3APyt...

You may not be able to see a list of the forks via the web interface, but you can (albeit less conveniently) see them with the JSON API:

https://api.github.com/repos/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/for...

And you can paginate like this:

https://api.github.com/repos/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/for...

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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Post by 59nadir »

somerandomone wrote: post #53

> I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing. Can the author reach the US by whatever mean and apply for political asylum? That 'fear that they will suffer persecution due to: ... Political opinion'[0] seems legit. [0] http://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/asylum

Yes, he should move to the US, where he'll be forced to use NSA approved (read: cracked) or no encryption.
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