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

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post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That mostly a side effect of GitHub's caching mechanism. It's all gone now.

All of the links in the post you're replying to still work fine for me.

No, it's not there. You must just be seeing something in your browser cache. It's all gone forever. cough wink cough

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

#192
I am living in Iran and shadowsocks was by far the best tunneling software I have ever used, and believe me I've used almost ANYTHING!

I appreciate the efforts of clowwindy and it's talented developers and hope the development keep going.

That might be nice if some independent organization take ownership of the project so other individuals feel safer contributing to it.

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

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post #159
post #120

As a Chinese developer, I got more and more disappointed to my country. I'd read a book written by LinYutang, called My Country and My People. All my understandings of my country after reading this book are not same as nowaday China. What's wrong? I don't know. I just wanna have freedom for Googleing. I just wanna the people in this country be happy not only because they get enough to eat.

Don't worry, western leaders have figured out one doesn't need democracy or free speech for capitalism to function, China set an example. So with all the spying , ban of encryption , limits on freedom of the press with laws such as "the right to be forgotten" or making illegal to criticize cops or politicians in Spain , we have already entered in a post democratic era . And people in Europe take their freedom for gra…

The right to be forgotten is actually a powerful mechanism to protect individuals. Though, the law should possibly revised such that it only applies to individuals that are not a public figure, who can prove to have little or no range of responsibilities.

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

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post #140
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…

IPsec and OpenVPN are open in Iran. Obviously you don't know what deep packet inspection is, or never tried to implement it, otherwise you wouldn't say that.

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

#195
What an awful government, simply horrible!

Now imagine, one manager coming to you with an idea:

"Hey, here is a great way to make big money: we fire all our expensive US workers and move the whole production chain to China, people are much cheaper there and governement will keep it that way!"

Would you adore such a greedy $$$hole and make him manager of the century?

Just another crazy idea: Imagine we would produce all our hardware for all our communication devices in a country with such an authoritarian neandertal-government! Oh, wait...

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

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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.

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

#198
post #63

For people who are not aware of this: Shadowsocks is a popular and very simple tool to circumvent Great Fire Wall in China. It is written to reduce characteristics in network traffic so that GFW cannot easily block it by deep traffic analysis. clowwindy is the original author.

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...

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

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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…

Go there, they welcome guys like you.

See, I am not necessarily talking about the USA as I am from Europe. But I value the universal right of the western world for free expression very much. There is no such thing as the perfect country, but I firmly believe that you should have the right to freely discuss shortcomings and solution. This is given in the USA as well as in Europe. You will not have that possibility in Iran or China. And you will have many other things denied, too. So good luck there!

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

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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…

by the way, most of you listed shortcomings are true as well as for China as Iran. But they would not allow your post to appear here. Maybe they'd come to your house and just put you into jail for anti-government propaganda. Good countries they are...
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