Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025
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Re: Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025
#2Terrible, this is Internet curfew. It's not uncommon to imagine they'd shutdown Internet across border during any war (like against Taiwan).
Re: Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025
#3Terrible, this is Internet curfew. It's not uncommon to imagine they'd shutdown Internet across border during any war (like against Taiwan).
That's what's so great about LoRA. Decentralized txt msgs, ultra cheap radios people run at home or wherever. $10-35USD ON AMAZON. Least txts get through.
Re: Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025
#4Think of how many people who have remote jobs with American companies couldn't connect to their meetings while they "work from home" while secretly being in China!
Normally they have to fight VPN issues anyway, but having a sovereign state inject your packets is certainly a fun new one.
Re: Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025
#5Terrible, this is Internet curfew. It's not uncommon to imagine they'd shutdown Internet across border during any war (like against Taiwan).
That's what's so great about LoRA. Decentralized txt msgs, ultra cheap radios people run at home or wherever. $10-35USD ON AMAZON. Least txts get through.
It won't get you from where you are to China though.
Re: Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025
#6Think of how many people who have remote jobs with American companies couldn't connect to their meetings while they "work from home" while secretly being in China! Normally they have to fight VPN issues anyway, but having a sovereign state inject your packets is certainly a fun new one.
I suspect those connections worked fine.
It’s good to know the boss.
Re: Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025
#7Think of how many people who have remote jobs with American companies couldn't connect to their meetings while they "work from home" while secretly being in China! Normally they have to fight VPN issues anyway, but having a sovereign state inject your packets is certainly a fun new one.
I suspect those connections worked fine. It’s good to know the boss.
I definitely appreciate that a percentage of so called "employees" are actually just full fledged Chinese nationals, living permanently in China, paid a salary to pretend to be an American who had their identity stolen.
But there absolutely is also a non-negligible number of Chinese and Indian nationals, who have some type of visa status in the US (especially a green card) who spend many months in their original countries making $200,000 or more per year while living like royalty in their home countries :)
Re: Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025
#8Think of how many people who have remote jobs with American companies couldn't connect to their meetings while they "work from home" while secretly being in China! Normally they have to fight VPN issues anyway, but having a sovereign state inject your packets is certainly a fun new one.
How common can this really be? And what kind of companies? I’m finding it really hard to imagine this to be widespread.
Re: Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025
#9Terrible, this is Internet curfew. It's not uncommon to imagine they'd shutdown Internet across border during any war (like against Taiwan).
That's what's so great about LoRA. Decentralized txt msgs, ultra cheap radios people run at home or wherever. $10-35USD ON AMAZON. Least txts get through.
Can you recommend a guide? I’m interested in trying it out.
Re: Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025
#10Terrible, this is Internet curfew. It's not uncommon to imagine they'd shutdown Internet across border during any war (like against Taiwan).
In fact, it’s a common tactic to do something unusual, in a recurrent way, so people aren’t alerted when it happens for real. (When the Mossad stole 7 boats from a French port (that they had fully paid), they prepared a few months in advance by having the pilots start the engines every night at 23:00, pretending they needed it against the cold temperatures. When they day came, they started the engines and left, no-one saw it coming).