Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chinese ownership

Re:Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chin... by majia on Sunday November 25, 2018 @02:05AM (#18525774)

Providing vpn services is almost illegal in china. The party doesnt ask for logs; it shuts down vpn services and punishes the providers. So the odds of vpn provider sharing logs with the government is ironically low.

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Re:Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chin... by netsharc on Sunday November 25, 2018 @02:23AM (#18525808)

Well... if "dissidents" use VPN that you ("Chinese government") can't monitor, what's one easy way to continue monitoring them?

Yes, offer them free VPN, what good is encryption if you're connected to a server they own/have influence over?

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Re:Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chin... by majia on Sunday November 25, 2018 @03:06AM (#18525912)

The party doesn’t need to offer them free vpn. Instead, it figures out what vpn services they are using and shuts them down. It goes as far as using machine learning to detect vpn traffic.

I guess this is more effective because dissents is a very small subset of vpn users, and application layer encryption makes it hard to extract much information even if you can monitor vpn traffic.

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