EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

Re:EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio by VWWHFSfQ on Monday June 02, 2025 @10:17AM (#44159111)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but isn't this project (and website) essentially illegal in China?

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Re:EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio by sureglymop on Monday June 02, 2025 @10:41AM (#44159333)

Why would hosting this website and creating this project be illegal in China?

They're not offering this as a SAAS or something...

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Re:EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio by nonethewiser on Monday June 02, 2025 @12:28PM (#44160483)

Distribution of software that subverts censorship laws.

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Re:EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio by MallocVoidstar on Monday June 02, 2025 @10:38AM (#44159303)

VPNs in their basic sense are legal in China, many large companies provide them/use them and so on. VPNs designed to bypass the Firewall without government approval are a subset of VPNs which the police do not like.

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Re:EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio by nonethewiser on Monday June 02, 2025 @12:30PM (#44160497)

OK so real VPNs are illegal. Then you have a subsets of VPNs that are regulated by the CCP and therefor legal. And useless for many use-cases.

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Re:EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio by adinisom on Monday June 02, 2025 @05:43PM (#44163418)

I would assume EasyTier devs use it to connect their devices within China so the great firewall isn't involved. Attempts to cross the firewall with EasyTier are detectable without things like Tor's pluggable censorship evasion transports.

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