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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: 2) by NotSanguine on Sunday March 04 2018, @05:51AM
The Shanghai office of a previous employer.
While offices in different countries are incorporated in those countries, there is significant cooperation between offices when necessary/appropriate. As such, site-to-site VPN is routinely used to communicate between offices on three continents. Client/server VPN is used by employees to securely access office networks.
Given that sensitive client information is routinely transmitted across those VPN links, this could be very bad for them.
I'd note that several principals in that Shanghai office requested, and I implemented, a proxy server in the US for them to use across our VPN links (even though that ended up being quite slow) to bypass Chinese government access restrictions.
This goes back a number of years, but I suspect there will be a lot more international travel for the employees of that (and that of other companies in China) office, so they can securely transmit/receive sensitive information.
I wonder how the Chinese government will address that?
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