Taiwan to block Tencent and Baidu streaming sites on security risk

Re:Taiwan to block Tencent and Baidu streaming sites on secu... by yorwba on Sunday March 31, 2019 @03:54PM (#19537945)

> Baidu's servers (which they list only for use as web crawlers

Interesting, where does one go to check such a list of intended uses for a web server? Since Baidu has a cloud offering, the likeliest explanation is that the impersonation attempts are by spammers renting the servers from Baidu.

> Furthermore, my personal website which only displays my personal contact information is blocked in China.

Doesn't seem to be the case, unless I got the wrong website: https://en.greatfire.org/qui.suis.je

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Re:Taiwan to block Tencent and Baidu streaming sites on secu... by microcolonel on Sunday March 31, 2019 @04:16PM (#19538082)

> Doesn't seem to be the case, unless I got the wrong website: https://en.greatfire.org/qui.suis.je .

That is interesting! I have some devices in Beijing and Shanghai, and I can't reach qui.suis.je from there anymore (I used to be able to). I was able to connect from Jiangsu for a week or so last month, but not since.

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Re:Taiwan to block Tencent and Baidu streaming sites on secu... by yorwba on Sunday March 31, 2019 @04:54PM (#19538315)

The Great Firewall is known to do packet inspection, so if you ever had a long-running SSH session with your server, they might have classified it as a homegrown VPN tunnel and banned it for you specifically. Or they're letting requests from greatfire.org through to make censorship harder to detect.

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