This sucks for travelers and ex-pats, but for China's future this is a very, very, very big deal. I lived in Shanghai last year, and Chinese Internet surveillance is unreal. I could use gmail chat to talk about tiananman square, but as soon as I did all of my Google apps would suddenly be unavailable. I can only assume that when i used certain keywords my every chat was being monitored. A VPN was the only way I could…
>I was literally minutes away from being on a bullet train from Shanghai to Beijing that killed "x" people. Chinese authorities cite incredibly low numbers for a train traveling at 300 km/h. Most non-state observers cited hundreds of deaths. China slowly grew its number from 20-40. I'm unfamiliar with this, is it a reference to bullet trains running over people who somehow got on the tracks?
VPN access being disabled in China
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Re: VPN access being disabled in China
#62Before travel to China, create a throwaway email account on a service, possibly Yahoo. Don't touch your real email accounts while you're there, if possible. The only time I've ever had an email account hacked is following use in China.
Note that Yahoo has good relationships with the government. I would definitely recommend gmail instead
Nice thought, but you may not find it easy to access GMail. Yahoo's "tight" relationship with the government means that its site works most of the time, and has usable performance. In China, all web sites are not created equally. Rather than outright blocking, the general strategy appears to be to kill the performance of sites, raising frustration.