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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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0xFFC wrote: post #143
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)

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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 teraflop »

riobard wrote: post #93
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.

All of the links in the post you're replying to still work fine for me.

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

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Post by 0xFFC »

yyhhsj0521 wrote: post #149
0xFFC wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Yes , I have heard it too . halal internet not going to launch , because Rohani is not believe in it and tries to postpone it every year(maybe they have technical issues too , I don't have information) . all military site's have ethernet and connect to each other with it.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

olalonde wrote: post #134
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…

> Encryption is not enough. I use an unencrypted PPTP VPN and the connection is really fast and stable here (Shenzhen, China Telecom). I have tried OpenVPN and ssh but both were much slower. FWIW, I don't believe using a VPN is illegal in China (though operating a VPN service without a license most likely is) and pretty much every single foreigner I know uses one.

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Post by Laforet »

kijin wrote: post #135
Laforet wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This might sound a bit counter intuitive but they really hate OpenVPN and SSH tunnels - not to mention they are trivial to detect and the process is highly automated. Traditional VPNs such as PPTP/IPsec as well as various forms of obfuscated proxies are generally not interfered with unless something major happens. A lot of the alleged "censorship" are actually symptoms of high latency and packet loss on home connecti…

I suppose that means OpenVPN and SSH are too secure for the Chinese government to eavesdrop on. PPTP, on the other hand, has been known to be insecure for ages. So... could you avoid detection by passing an SSH tunnel through a PPTP VPN? Add enough layers, and the censors might not bother to unwrap all of them.

Yes you can. Shadowsocks was intended for the similar purpose of tunnelling traffic and it is a bit more flexible than GRE-based VPNs

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

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Post by kingdom017 »

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.

In China, the rule of man above the rule of law...the man who accuse the ISP for cannot access google in China has been arrested..(sorry for my poor english..)

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

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Post by Kim_Bruning »

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

Seeing the position of the US and UK governments on encryption is coming in-line with china, I would be careful of traveling to those countries.

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

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Post by fyolnish »

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…

When I was in China last year I had no problems using OpenVPN on my Holland based server.

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

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Post by aikah »

djyde wrote: post #120

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.

Don't worry, western leaders have figured out one doesn't need democracy or free speech for capitalism to function, China set an example. So with all the spying , ban of encryption , limits on freedom of the press with laws such as "the right to be forgotten" or making illegal to criticize cops or politicians in Spain , we have already entered in a post democratic era . And people in Europe take their freedom for granted forgetting they had to fight to death to win their freedom at first place.

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

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Post by oliwarner »

olalonde wrote: post #134
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…

> Encryption is not enough. I use an unencrypted PPTP VPN and the connection is really fast and stable here (Shenzhen, China Telecom). I have tried OpenVPN and ssh but both were much slower. FWIW, I don't believe using a VPN is illegal in China (though operating a VPN service without a license most likely is) and pretty much every single foreigner I know uses one.

Per the other comment, MS-CHAP2 is crackable. The PRC govt is probably happy to encourage people to think they're secure using it.
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