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EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

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Re: EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

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This is a Chinese project (hosted inside China), so probably not very well.

Au contraire, it is usually developers of Chinese origin that build some of the widely used anti-censorship techniques & protocols. Ironically, it was American companies that sold firewall tech to the CCP: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-internet-providers-and-g...

Yes, but they don't host those projects inside China. This site is hosted inside China and has an ICP number.

Re: EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

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Anyone familiar with the Chinese tech scene can explain what this is at the bottom? # Zhejiang ICP No. 2024137671-1 It takes you to some government website but it is not clear whether this is a business registration or something else.

You need a government license to operate a website in China, and that's their license number.

Re: EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

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Au contraire, it is usually developers of Chinese origin that build some of the widely used anti-censorship techniques & protocols. Ironically, it was American companies that sold firewall tech to the CCP: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-internet-providers-and-g...

I don't think the issue is about the developers being Chinese at all. I think the problem comes mainly from the CCP having direct power to pressure the developers. In any case, I have to say Chinese tech has surely evolved impressively.

Yeah – the shadowsocks developer is Chinese and the government went after them for working on an iOS VPN app back in the day on GitHub. That was a while ago, before the CCP had direct control over the App Store with law.

Re: EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

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Aren't you making yourself vulnerable to unknowingly sending (potentially loads of) illicit traffic from your ip address into the world? I'm not sure if I'd be up for that, to be honest...

it’s like someone saw Tor and said "but what if we removed all the safeguards?"

Re: EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

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Aren't you making yourself vulnerable to unknowingly sending (potentially loads of) illicit traffic from your ip address into the world? I'm not sure if I'd be up for that, to be honest...

This is exactly that by thought was. This solves nothing what the traditional VPN or TOR is used for. It's like running an exit node from your hope IP address. You do not want to do that.

Re: EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

#19

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Au contraire, it is usually developers of Chinese origin that build some of the widely used anti-censorship techniques & protocols. Ironically, it was American companies that sold firewall tech to the CCP: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-internet-providers-and-g...

Yes, but they don't host those projects inside China . This site is hosted inside China and has an ICP number.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but isn't this project (and website) essentially illegal in China?

Re: EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

#20

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Yes, but they don't host those projects inside China . This site is hosted inside China and has an ICP number.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but isn't this project (and website) essentially illegal in China?

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