Think of how many people who have remote jobs with American companies couldn't connect to their meetings while they "work from home" while secretly being in China!
Normally they have to fight VPN issues anyway, but having a sovereign state inject your packets is certainly a fun new one.
There are special virtual SIM cards that provide access to services from mainland China, as well as VPNs that function normally without issues. I used both while I was in China.
Not only individuals, but also major companies were locked down. If this was a dry run for "certain measures" in the future, I can't believe how much of a blow it would cause to the economy. Therefore, I think this was more of a human error.
Determining the scope of the impact would also be part of such a dry run. And if it is meant to be used along some kind of military action then it's going to throw the economy into chaos anyway.
How is traffic controlled inside PRC? Is GFW a central hub for all traffic between all hosts? Or between residential ASNs and commercial ones only? In the UK and Iran a lot of censorship was implemented by leaning on ISPs at IP level (eg BT Cleanfeed) and with DNS blocks but I haven’t kept up to date with how networks might handle residential hosting. Maybe internal traffic is just all banned?
The most depressing is that what happens in China, will eventually happen in the west too. I'm sure certain US, UK, and EU bureaucrats are already crafting campaigns about how this ability will 'save the children' and that it should be implemented immediately (politicians and certain other selected people will be exempt of course).
Thanks for sharing this. I researched this for my A level project a few years ago, and this is a really neat cross reference. I didn't mention V2Ray as much.
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[ 3.8 ms ] story [ 35.4 ms ] threadNormally they have to fight VPN issues anyway, but having a sovereign state inject your packets is certainly a fun new one.
There are special virtual SIM cards that provide access to services from mainland China, as well as VPNs that function normally without issues. I used both while I was in China.
https://danglingpointer.fun/posts/GFWHistory
Posted 6 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44898892)