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Post by mozumder »

59nadir wrote: post #99
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.

??

US citizens can use any encryption they wish.

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Post by tinydog »

liquidcool wrote: post #81
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'm curious, what is the risk of getting caught, and what is the penalty?

I am a native Chinese. I was threatened by the police because of publishing a unfair treatment from a decree of local magistrates. The police said that I had to delete all of them, otherwise I would be brought into jail and my parents would lose their job. At that time, I was only 16. I don't want to live in this country anymore but I have no choice. I love China but the government.

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Post by LoSboccacc »

tajen wrote: post #102
a-saleh wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have colleagues in china and generally speaking, you find an alternative, and host it on premise. I believe this is the reason why they use Atlassian[1] products, where rest of us would use trello, e.t.c. [1] company that created jira

Aren't there a dozen of bugtrackers, intranet collaboration software, CI tools and git hostings that they could download and install? What's so special with the Atlassian products?

those sucks a little less than, say, bugtraq, offer enterprise support on premises which you'd never use but you need to do the purchasing when you go for a big company and kind of have a big recognized name for their customization support even if their whole stack sucks.

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Post by edwinyzh »

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…

"Thanks" to the Great FireWall by one of the evilest governments, I might have to finally give up Gmail after many years struggling using it with the help of a wide variety of GFW-fighting tools. My deepest respect to all the authors.

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Post by DanBC »

brillenfux wrote: post #108
hkmurakami wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing. Frankly I don't know if we are that country. :(

In the context of a Chinese hacker fearing prison this is awfully cynical hyperbole.

It's obviously far worse in china, but still.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lech_Johansen

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Post by aosmith »

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…

Spoofing GGP tends to work very well in these situations.

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Post by Aoyagi »

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…

What is this supposed to mean?

https://github.com/clowwindy/ShadowVPN

"Removed according to regulations."

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Post by gnur »

mobutu wrote: post #104

On this note, we've been trying to upload gigabytes of data via rsync from Europe to China (we are software company who are trying to deliver tools to our Chinese customers..). Connection used to be fast when it was night time in China, but lately the connection has been really slow or unusable. Is there any alternative way to get lots of packages from Western countries to China?

Ship it on an usb drive. (use encryption)

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Post by natch »

xiaq wrote: post #22
smilekzs wrote: post #17

From Wikipedia: > The Streisand effect is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet.

If you control virtually every aspect of media in a country, I don't see how Streisand effect works...

It works in your theoretical scenario unless you also take away word of mouth, international communication, and international travel. I don't see China banning any of those any time soon.

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Post by djyde »

As a Chinese developer, I got more and more disappointed to my country.

I'd read a book written by LinYutang, called My Country and My People. All my understandings of my country after reading this book are not same as nowaday China.

What's wrong? I don't know. I just wanna have freedom for Googleing. I just wanna the people in this country be happy not only because they get enough to eat.

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