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Re:India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech C... by hansstam on Monday September 28, 2015 @09:24AM (#10290301)
You say you went to MIT and don't know how to set up your own VPN server?
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Re:India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech C... by philsalesses on Monday September 28, 2015 @10:10AM (#10290522)
Aren't you snarky... Read carefully. I have a fourth. And that wouldn't fix it anyway. They detect it on the protocol level. They posison your DNS.
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Re:India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech C... by rndmind on Monday September 28, 2015 @04:17PM (#10292897)
That's a legitimate question, setting up an OpenVPN server is trivial. I am curious, have you tried using obfusproxy or an alternate way to obfuscate your vpn traffic?
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Re:India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech C... by kchoudhu on Monday September 28, 2015 @09:54AM (#10290444)
Fairly certain the GFC can ferret out any VPN you can set up on your own.
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Re:India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech C... by noodles23 on Monday September 28, 2015 @10:28AM (#10290606)
Not exactly. If you use an standard VPN protocol right out of the box (read: OpenVPN), then yes it is automatically blocked. The OpenVPN SSL handshake is different to regular SSL.

There are certain ways you can disguise the traffic and the VPN companies that specialize in China do that- but the GFW is regularly updated so what works today probably won't work next month.

The other issue is that even if you do get a VPN working, they have a tendency to throttle your connection. VPN traffic is quite different to your regular http/https.

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