• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    it kinda confuses me that china couldn’t restrict VPN and Tor if it wanted to. i rather suspect they turn a blind eye, for some reason.

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        2 months ago

        Remote work/administration too. I work on servers one of which is behind the chinese firewall, via ssh. ssh can carry socks natively, I could build a crude throttled but working vpn in seconds.

        China is also slowing transfers in general, I guess to push domestic providers and servers. Even with that if they don’t want to sever all economic and scientific connections it will remain possible, though cumbersome to most.

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      2 months ago

      There are too many ways around it to viably block VPNs and Tor. Both offer bridge services that don’t look like VPNs and can come from different places.