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Post by Laforet »

chefkoch wrote: post #235
Laforet wrote: post #103

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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…

IPsec is blocked now.

Blocked for a few established VPN providers e.g.Astrill. The protocol itself is not blocked per se.

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Post by MrBra »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #293
MrBra wrote: post #220

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Why go through Internet access providers in first place? Just get a radio transmitter and start broadcasting on short waves with encrypted digital modes... at least for short, critical transmissions.

At 1.2kbps?

Q: "Would you like a free, uncensored system to talk to anyone in the world? On top of that you could also send data at 1.2 kpbs, again free and uncensored. You just need to swich frequencies quite often and randomly, in order to avoid that the bad guys will track you down..."

A: "No, 1.2kpbs is not enough, thanks but I prefer censorship."

Is that what you're saying?

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Post by behermit »

fxckgfw wrote: post #332
leoc wrote: post #253

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Allegedly it's mostly or at least originally Cisco's technology: https://insidersurveillance.com/cisco-huawei-and-semptian-a-... .

At first China also used Cisco's stuff, but soon they could't keep up with the requirements of the Chinese govt. After that a man usually criticized to be "the father of GFW", FANG Binxing, came up and built more powerful censorship hardware and software for the govt at Beihang U. It is said that they now use supercomputers to parse, analyse and block (and even inject, remember GitHub?) all packages going through the…

It is not a secret at all....

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

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Post by behermit »

seesomesense wrote: post #488
njloof wrote: post #325

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And let's not forget BlueCoat. These are our colleagues designing and implementing these tools of oppression. We should ask them why they exercise their talents in this way.

"Of the ten conflicts in human history with the highest death tolls, five were civil wars in China. Chief among these was the Three Kingdoms War when up to 40 million are reckoned to have perished in military operations and from the destructive consequences of warfare. This is an enormous number, considering that the global population at that time is unlikely to have exceeded 400 million. More recently, the Taiping R…

Good statement so far. But wait... do you assume that censorship could cause another civil war or could avoid another civil war? And where is your reasoning or evidence?

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Post by hhandoko »

hodwik wrote: post #529
mainguy wrote: post #516

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24/7/52 does seem more logical...

365 means they don't close for holidays. I don't know what 52 would mean.

There's 52 weeks in a year.

24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 52 weeks in a year.

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

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Post by kinosang »

mobutu wrote: post #385
kinosang wrote: post #279

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Use Chinese CDN (such as Upyun, Baidu CDN, Qiniu and Aliyun) for http file downloading (with a subdomain provided by the CDN or you'll need to apply permissions at MIIT as ICP) instead of rsync or ssh tunnel. Or rsync your data to Japanese Servers (Linode, GMO, etc) and ask your customers to download through http or https.

The problem is to upload data to China, we are not downloading anything from there. "Or rsync your data to Japanese Servers (Linode, GMO, etc) and ask your customers to download through http or https." We've used Amazon CDN before even for Chinese customers and they have closest node in Hong Kong - they still(Chinese) have difficulties to download our packages. I doubt using Japanese server would solve our problem. T…

CloudFront, the CDN from Amazon, have already been blocked by the GFW. But you can use CloudFlare or Baidu's CDN, etc.

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Post by thaumaturgy »

MrBra wrote: post #532
thaumaturgy wrote: post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At 1.2kbps?

Q: "Would you like a free, uncensored system to talk to anyone in the world? On top of that you could also send data at 1.2 kpbs, again free and uncensored. You just need to swich frequencies quite often and randomly, in order to avoid that the bad guys will track you down..." A: "No, 1.2kpbs is not enough, thanks but I prefer censorship." Is that what you're saying?

Sorry, I've already had my fill of stupid arguments on the internet for the next couple days. Maybe some other time we can get together and do our best to misunderstand eachother.

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

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Post by MrBra »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #537
MrBra wrote: post #532

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Q: "Would you like a free, uncensored system to talk to anyone in the world? On top of that you could also send data at 1.2 kpbs, again free and uncensored. You just need to swich frequencies quite often and randomly, in order to avoid that the bad guys will track you down..." A: "No, 1.2kpbs is not enough, thanks but I prefer censorship." Is that what you're saying?

Sorry, I've already had my fill of stupid arguments on the internet for the next couple days. Maybe some other time we can get together and do our best to misunderstand eachother.

Haha. Ok. And sorry.

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Post by tired_man »

switch007 wrote: post #415
tired_man wrote: post #299

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They want to remain in control and never be displaced. You can tell when a country is either totalitarian or when it's heading that way when they begin seeking increased control over the media, when your communications are subject to routine governmental monitoring, when you can become criminally suspect for having cash, when they're afraid of you being able to encrypt anything because it might be Terror/ChildPorn (r…

UK is heading this way..

US, UK, AU....

The only hope is for oil to just run out.

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Post by elcct »

conradev wrote: post #28
babuskov wrote: post #23

I find this comment amazing: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/issues/124#is... Even with root account, you are not in full control of your Mac - you are sandboxed by Apple.

This is the result of a recent change in OS X 10.11, called System Integrity Protection. It's a big step in the wrong direction [opinion], especially because it does nothing to verify "integrity". It prevents changes to the System directory by conventional means (and injection into system processes). If malware were to figure out a way to disable SIP from userland, it could install itself in such a way that nothing s…

Windows 10, now OS X... and meanwhile I have installed Linux on all my workstations. Looks like big corporations are shooting themselves in the foot.
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