Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

github.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

141–150 of 559 posts

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

#141

Post by noselasd »

4684499 wrote: post #26
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:…

Years ago, news said China "banned" bitcoin, years later miners in China live just fine. I guess this is not going to be so different.

The only thing that's "banned" regarding bitcoins in china is that financial institutions arn't allowed to trade them. You can mine them, you can set up companies that mine them, you can trade them if you're not a financial institution.

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

#142

Post by JonnyGreenwood »

gnur wrote: post #118
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)

And get confiscated by China customs..

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

#143

Post by 0xFFC »

grondilu wrote: post #138

> I have no choice but to obey. Did he ask a lawyer? Because it looks to me there are two possibilities. One, he was not doing anything illegal in which case the police had no authority to stop his activities. Two, he was indeed doing something illegal in which case he can be glad he got out of it with what appears to be only a warning.

I didn't get where he/she is from.If I were him and I was in US I would fight back with legal system, but if I were in china and Iran I would run away (sadly because there is no reliable legal system in these countries)

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

#144

Post by blackgear »

This is the end of a century. People in China had used 4 kinds of tools to skip the GFW: freegate, openvpn, goagnet, shadowsocks.

freegate is a traditional http proxy or socks proxy built by Falun Gong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong). They built lots of software with the same technology: freegate gpass freeu dynapass... People share this kind of banned software sending to each others just like teenagers share adult videos. After update of GFW, it become un-available and un-usable.

openvpn turns break GFW as a business, people sells openvpn account at $1.66 a month regularly. They sell this kind of services package including pptp l2tp ssh openvpn to those who need a free network.

goagent is a free software written by Phus Lu. It use Google's application engine as server so you can use it without paying money.So it replaced openvpn since it cost $0. After China banned Google, this way become more and more hard.

shadowsock is a protocol designed by clowwindy. It become a environment. People use python, C, nodejs, golang, rust, obj-c, java to write their own client and server. Some organization share their server for free, some people sell account and provide high speed. shadowvpn works as a VPN while shadowsocks works as a socks5 proxy, but share the same technology.

This is the end of shadowsocks. I means recently more and more evidence shows that GFW has finally find a way to recognize shadowsocks's packets. Then they stopped the development of shadowsocks.

That's all. The winter of China's network comes.

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

#145

Post by sneakOwl »

A lot of people set up shadowsocks on their VPS and then spread it to their circles. It's the growing community and that more people are communicating with each other via means the party can not control that upsets the party. This will not stop, it's our fight for freedom.

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

#147

Post by catinred »

I've been using this anti-censorship software for about 2 or 3 years. It's the most stable one of all anti-censorship softwares I've ever used. For those who's not in China mainland, you can not imagine how many breaking-wall softwares we've ever used.From ssh -D,pptp,L2tp/ipsec,to OpenVpn. In order to access twitter,someone even create twitter api proxy such as Twip,btw,the creator was ever forced to "drink tea" with the police ,too. The Chinese gov just blocks any sites they want and frighten anyone who is "troublemaker". Best wishes for the gov,and for the heroes who is creative and brave to develop all these anti-censorship softwares.

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

#148

Post by floatboth »

dalke wrote: post #35
escape_goat wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding your use of English, because it is difficult to see how this is not a facetious question. There are relatively few countries in which the government both could and would interfere with someone's publication of code, and I think only in China is there both widespread computer use and internet access, on the one hand, and state security actors (the civil police, actually) who have the soph…

The US does "interfere" with the publication of some code. I'm thinking of cryptography code. Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th... . > Since World War II, many governments, including the U.S. and its NATO allies, have regulated the export of cryptography for national security considerations, and, as late as 1992, cryptography was on the U.S. Munitions List as an Auxiliary Milit…

But in the US, you can sue the government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

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

#149

Post by yyhhsj0521 »

0xFFC wrote: post #140
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 am in Iran , you cannot believe it , same here , They use deep packet inspection too, they will shut every package down. every open vpn , cisco vpn , etc connection will lose connection every 2-3 min . Connection to outside web is almost impossible. I have noticed they have multiple situation, for example when everything's quiet internet is not so bad (despite the fact bandwidth is extremely low for huge amount of…

I heard rumors that that before Halal Internet was launched the censorship of Iran was relegated to Huawei, the same company that builds and maintains the Great Firewall...

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

#150

Post by floatboth »

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:…

The last commit on the GitLab mirror is cf485148bd9f4d4520d13e2169997cd72464f3c0. On GitHub, it's not the last one, but it's on the first page (not that much commits since).

Because it's the same SHA, and because of the way git works, we know that all the history before it is exactly the same on GitHub and GitLab.

Post reply on HN