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Post by badpenny »

mcbridematt wrote: post #79
usaar333 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do multinational companies' china offices get through the firewall? For example if my company uses Google apps, how do I ensure that my china office has access?

Pay one of the telcos (i.e China Unicom) for an MPLS circuit out of the country. Also, international performance in general can be quite bad at peak times (i.e 30% packet loss), I suspect due to Comcast-style management of international transit. But if you buy a transit circuit from Unicom, no problem! Edit: to add to the grand parent, I've actually found ssh -D/-w0 (for a TUN device) quite reliable from China. What…

> Pay one of the telcos (i.e China Unicom) for an MPLS circuit out of the country.

Don't suppose you could explain to us network plebs how that would bypass the Great Firewall?

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

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Post by DanBC »

Coding_Cat wrote: post #198
bitinn wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 services using Shadowsocks, and they are available on many platforms, like routers and embedded systems. And the iOS version is more or less the author's recent efforts to build a VPN client that can run on non-jailbroken iPhone, much like Cisco A…

What is to stop any non-chinese person from rehosting the old code? I mean, they obviously wouldn't like it and if I was said person I'd never visit China's sphere of influence again...

I guess nothing.

There are plenty of people on HN who are i) wealthy ii) interested in beating censorship.

It'd be nice to see some effort going into creating software to beat censorship; having excellent translations of the documentation into a variety of languages; etc.

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

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Post by lomnakkus »

radmuzom wrote: post #189
geff82 wrote: post #178

as a sidenote I encourage all people with talent to leave countries with suppressive regimes. I think they should be erased from their position. One way to do that is to encourage everyone to leave their country. One can argue that staying in a bad country may one day help to build it up again, but on the other hand, nothing hurts bad people in power more than complete brain drain.

Leave to where? To a country where 1. a few rich people control the entire political process by buying out politicians. 2. where there are frequent shootings and you are never safe due to some idiotic Constitutional amendment. 3. where regularly unarmed minorities are shot dead by the police and the majority jury allow them to go unpunished. 4. where there is no mandate to give workers paid leave include those with a…

I'm not going to pretend that anywhere's perfect, but I think the Scandiwegian countries score pretty well on your "checklist".

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Post by nxb »

mcbridematt wrote: post #79
usaar333 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do multinational companies' china offices get through the firewall? For example if my company uses Google apps, how do I ensure that my china office has access?

Pay one of the telcos (i.e China Unicom) for an MPLS circuit out of the country. Also, international performance in general can be quite bad at peak times (i.e 30% packet loss), I suspect due to Comcast-style management of international transit. But if you buy a transit circuit from Unicom, no problem! Edit: to add to the grand parent, I've actually found ssh -D/-w0 (for a TUN device) quite reliable from China. What…

How do you setup a routing protocol to do fast failover? Is it easy?

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Post by nesyt »

ColinWright wrote: post #186
loser777 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 conseq…

I'm always brought up short when someone says/writes "24/7/365" because it really doesn't make sense. "24/7" means 24 hours a day, seven days a week. "24/365" means 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. "24/7/365" means 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 weeks a year? I know, I know, it's become an idiom, and it's like "I could care less", and you can't try to understand it except as an atom that caries a meaning, but it…

24/7/365 is dead. Long live 24/7/52!

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Post by FredericJ »

vladmiller wrote: post #8

And there are more than 500 forks. I'd say good luck deleting that :D

In this specific case, DMCA doesn't apply. But it's interesting to read GitHub's policy about taking down forks.

> GitHub will not automatically disable forks when disabling a parent repository. This is because forks belong to different users, may have been altered in significant ways, and may be licensed or used in a different way that is protected by the fair-use doctrine. GitHub does not conduct any independent investigation into forks. We expect copyright owners to conduct that investigation and, if they believe that the forks are also infringing, expressly include forks in their takedown notice.

https://help.github.com/articles/dmca-takedown-policy/

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Post by eric_bullington »

0xFFC wrote: post #182
geff82 wrote: post #178

as a sidenote I encourage all people with talent to leave countries with suppressive regimes. I think they should be erased from their position. One way to do that is to encourage everyone to leave their country. One can argue that staying in a bad country may one day help to build it up again, but on the other hand, nothing hurts bad people in power more than complete brain drain.

I have plan to leave, I am looking for os research lab to apply in next year or after and I am working on my langauge. quick question , your family does not have any issue with openvpn ? the place where I am we cannot use openvpn.they shut connection down every 2 3 min.

Are you using a commercial OpenVPN provider, or bootstrapping your own OpenVPN proxy like the grandparent poster? That may make a significant difference.

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Post by geff82 »

e12e wrote: post #197
geff82 wrote: post #178

as a sidenote I encourage all people with talent to leave countries with suppressive regimes. I think they should be erased from their position. One way to do that is to encourage everyone to leave their country. One can argue that staying in a bad country may one day help to build it up again, but on the other hand, nothing hurts bad people in power more than complete brain drain.

> nothing hurts bad people in power more than complete brain drain. Well, yes. A noose, for example. I completly sympathise with those the flee - but change in any country csn really only come from within. Often with help from outside - but without a force of change within - a real force - there will be no real change.

Yes, the micro and macro levels are contradicting. On the micro level, it is everyones personal best to leave and try to make a good life outside. On the macro level, it is best to stay and work on changing things for the better.

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Post by aidanhs »

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…

A few years ago I had a friend visiting Iran who wanted unrestricted access to sites. I didn't have any personal Linux servers on the internet at the time, but I did have a Windows one with Remote Desktop licenses.

It turned out that RDP actually worked pretty well. I did hesitate to post this in case it's seen by the wrong people(!), though given it's a while since it was necessary to use, it may be blocked by now anyway.

I wonder if it was available because it was relatively little known and, if so, what other little known protocols might be available.

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Post by geff82 »

lomnakkus wrote: post #203
radmuzom wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Leave to where? To a country where 1. a few rich people control the entire political process by buying out politicians. 2. where there are frequent shootings and you are never safe due to some idiotic Constitutional amendment. 3. where regularly unarmed minorities are shot dead by the police and the majority jury allow them to go unpunished. 4. where there is no mandate to give workers paid leave include those with a…

I'm not going to pretend that anywhere's perfect, but I think the Scandiwegian countries score pretty well on your "checklist".

Good idea. I'd also put Switzerland on the list of almost perfect countries. Best democracy there is, good welfare, good income, good environmental protection, acceptable (low) taxes.
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