How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully Encrypted Traffic [pdf]

Re:How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully ... by noduerme on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:17PM (#36537676)

If you're an American and you rent an apartment, the local police keep your passport until you leave. You keep a xerox. That's how it was at the time. I don't know if that's still the case.

I didn't feel good about it when I found out (actually, the moment I signed the lease), but there was nothing I could do about it.

My exit from Vietnam was almost humorous. I had about 50 DVDs in my suitcase, mostly encrypted backups and burned movies, and every single one was inspected by sight, holding it up to the light (to see how far the burn went?), then left on the floor of the airport for me to pick up. Upon re-entering the US, the customs officers did almost the same thing, and then just confiscated all my discs.

Weirdly, no one on either side checked my laptop.

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Re:How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully ... by pdntspa on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:56AM (#36547814)

So how do you travel outside the country then, if the police are holding your passport?

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Re:How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully ... by noduerme on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:02PM (#36553039)

You need to request it from the police for travel. In my experience, I did it via my landlord, and it took about a day.

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Re:How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully ... by evilos on Saturday July 01, 2023 @11:11AM (#36550960)

They took your DVDs? On what pretext? Did you get them back?

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Re:How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully ... by noduerme on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:04PM (#36553060)

The pretext was piracy, since some of them were labeled with the names of movies. I protested they should just keep those ones, but they took them all and said I was lucky they weren't going to prosecute me. I didn't even try to get them back.

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Re:How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully ... by wahnfrieden on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:08PM (#36537513)

Police control residents, rather than provide for their safety

Yes just like the US

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Re:How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully ... by mjhay on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:20PM (#36537741)

Ah, so just like the US then!

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Re:How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully ... by sixothree on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:23PM (#36538782)

Zip code depending of course.

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Re:How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully ... by mjhay on Friday June 30, 2023 @03:02PM (#36540416)

Good point.

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Re:How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully ... by noduerme on Friday June 30, 2023 @03:44PM (#36541069)

Actually, it's mostly down to how you address them.

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Re:How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully ... by noduerme on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:09PM (#36538566)

Police in America don't control residents. Most of the time they can't even control themselves.

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Re:How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully ... by vkou on Friday June 30, 2023 @02:29PM (#36539878)

They control unwanted residents, and unarmed[1] protesters.

[1] They prefer not to fuck with the armed ones.

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Re:How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully ... by CamperBob2 on Friday June 30, 2023 @02:53PM (#36540285)

Police in America don't control residents.

How was your nap, Mr. Van Winkle? 2020 wasn't a great year in the US. You were better off spending it asleep, trust me.

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Re:How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully ... by noduerme on Friday June 30, 2023 @03:32PM (#36540901)

Don't flatter yourself. Nothing happened in 2020 that hasn't happened a lot worse, a lot more times before in America. If anything, the police were surprisingly ineffectual at protecting the owners' interests. I'll step out and burn a flag all day long in the street. They ain't gonna arrest me.

I've seen the police publicly flog random people on the street in Vietnam just for being in their way. What a wonderfully just, equitable socialist paradise.

Go check out and live in a country where the police actually control people and get back to me.

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Re:How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully ... by wahnfrieden on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:00PM (#36542199)

You chose a bad example https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/gop-convention-flag-b...

Btw all you’ve said is something about degree of control or tactics. Not relevant

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