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Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by fiveyearsinarow on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:55AM (#11759244)
Because to establish the tunnel, you need to send some "handshake" packets to the server. Those packets are not encrypted and can be easily identified and dropped.
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Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by netheril96 on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @02:02AM (#11759265)
Which is why `shadowsocks` has become popular to bypass the GFW: it has no such handshake phase and hence cannot be easily identified.
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Re:China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet... by fiveyearsinarow on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @02:27AM (#11759345)
...and when GFW has trouble stopping `shadowsocks`, it threatens the author of the software. GFW is not only the technology, which is easy to bypass, but also the system that average citizen cannot escape.
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