VPN access being disabled in China
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VPN access being disabled in China
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Re: VPN access being disabled in China
#2VPN and SSH[1] have been means of evasion. But there have been anecdotal evidence of "unstable" VPN[2] and SSH connections before.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall_of_China [2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/13/china-crack...
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#3A long long time ago I used to sell ILC’s and Frame Relay services to major financial banks etc throughout Asia for Singtel, I wonder if any of them look back and wish for simpler times :)
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#4How is Cisco IPSec affected by this blockage? Any business or foreign mission conducting transactions in China should be very wary if they start targeting IPSec in any way.
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#5It has to be very selective, otherwise it would disturb hell lot of state admins and companies :P
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#6It has to be very selective, otherwise it would disturb hell lot of state admins and companies :P
It's been doing EXACTLY that. It's not that selective.
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#7How is Cisco IPSec affected by this blockage? Any business or foreign mission conducting transactions in China should be very wary if they start targeting IPSec in any way.
...and by "Cisco IPSec" you mean "IPSec", right?
I would assume, based on the various anecdotal reports I've read, that IPSec tunnels are blocked under this new program, along with PPTP and L2TP.
They're using machine learning packet classifiers to identify the traffic running over tcp and udp, as well.
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#8Before 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.
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#9Time to create Bitcoin-enabled p2p VPN market?
I have thought about the idea for some time. The marketplace operator could take something like 30% cut. Any private invidual could sell their internet connection to the chinese and earn some bitcoins in the process.
There could be some rules which could stop the chinese goverment from knowing which IP's operate in the market. For example, someone could buy certain VPN/IP address recurringly, and others couldn't purchase that specific IP - that way the goverment would have no way to know how that specific connection is used.
And of course, bitcoin isn't very easy or well established payment method - bring in the resellers/market makers from china. These could (with some easy to use software/API) resell these VPN's to the chinese inviduals.
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#10Here is a real test for Anonymous; take down the worlds most notorious firewall.