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On March 31st new rules take effect in China banning VPNs and cross-border leased lines. Bloomberg writes:
Censors have already eliminated hundreds of VPNs, which route user requests for sites through virtual networks located on the providers' servers, disguising their users' true locations or destinations. A few operators have been jailed, and over the summer Apple Inc. began removing VPN software from the Chinese version of its App Store. VyprVPN, ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and a shrinking number of others are still working to outpace the government, renting extra cloud servers from Amazon Web Services Inc. and the like to buoy their networks. They're also working on software that can make user activity look like permitted internet traffic, sometimes by renting internet protocol addresses that have also been used by government-approved services.
Source : China's Internet Underground Fights for Its Life
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jmorris on Saturday March 03 2018, @09:12PM
This is why I heap so much abuse on the cryptoweenies who think TOR and VPNs are the answer. They are great for pretend fighting governments who agree with the activists. Not so good for actually resisting a government that actually wants to find and destroy you. And if you think it is going to be limited to China think again. Watch the Great Firewall of Europe rise as they realize it is the only way to enforce their insane speech codes.