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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

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Post by dbetteridge »

wkat4242 wrote: post #14
tietjens wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How common can this really be? And what kind of companies? I’m finding it really hard to imagine this to be widespread.

Yeah if I'd sneak off to work from another place I'd pick somewhere really nice. Not China.

Have you ever been to China?

Because they have some of the most beautiful scenery and buildings I've seen and I've been to dozens of countries.

Personally I wouldn't go there for remote work, because the internet interference is a pain but a holiday definitely.

Re: Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025

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Post by NitpickLawyer »

methou wrote: post #20
wkat4242 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you bring something like a starlink mini for backup i wonder? Id imagine this would be very worrying being stuck there as a foreigner in such a situation.

A friend of mine tried, no signal.

If war breaks out, it'll likely be enabled.

Re: Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025

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Post by woooooo »

vintermann wrote: post #19
eastbound wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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-on…

It could also be a test to look for surprising things that break, in case they want to do this permanently at some later point.

Hanlon's and Occam's razors point to it being a mistake by the GFW operators, imo.

If it's on purpose, I think you have the most likely motivation.

Re: Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025

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Post by Wolfbeta »

chickenzzzzu wrote: post #18
bapak wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The green card isn't citizenship, you lose it if you don't live in the US. It's not like they don't know when you enter or exit the country.

6 months is a very long time.

2019 feels like 6 months ago.

Re: Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025

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Post by esseph »

tietjens wrote: post #8
chickenzzzzu wrote: post #4

Think 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.

Lookup the North Korean version of this with the laptop farms

Example: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...

Re: Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025

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Post by stevage »

wkat4242 wrote: post #11
kotri wrote: post #2

Terrible, this is Internet curfew. It's not uncommon to imagine they'd shutdown Internet across border during any war (like against Taiwan).

Could you bring something like a starlink mini for backup i wonder? Id imagine this would be very worrying being stuck there as a foreigner in such a situation.

Depends a lot whether Starlink decides to let you.
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