Posts by Nol

Prez Trump's $60bn China tariff plan to hit tech, communications, aerospace industries

Re: Wisconsin can probably kiss Foxconn goodbye

Foxconn is a Taiwanese company.

Russia, China vow to kill off VPNs, Tor browser

Re: Coming soon to the UK...

Err... probably the way they already do it in Xinjiang province.

They detect that you are using a VPN - they cut off your phone and associated internet account until you visit the police to request that it is switched back on.

- simples....

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/china-cuts-phone-service-xinjiang-citizens-using-whatsapp-vpns-1530266

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/business/international/china-cuts-mobile-service-of-xinjiang-residents-evading-internet-filters.html?mcubz=1

Entering the Dragon: A little data from Big China

Re: trade concessions

"Italy didn’t have any Chinese territorial concessions."

Oh yes they did,there was an Italian Concession in Tianjin from 1901 to 1947.

Snowden: 'I have data on EVERY NSA operation against China'

Oh the irony...

"Not when it appears on the front page of the New York Times ."

The New York Times is blocked in China.

...mine's the one with the Chinese z-visa in the pocket.

VPN ban makes for nervy times behind Great Firewall

Re: Hello from the Other Side of the GFW

"there's no indication that there's a trend of it happening"

Well not exactly like that but I was unable to use my VPN service and got this message:

"Dear Clients,

Recently, China had blocked VPN Ports and it had affected almost all the VPN providers but our Services were working fine until yesterday. "

Luckily they were onto it and within a day I had downloaded updated configuration files and everything is back to normal.

The chinese government is determined to play whack-a-mole with the VPN services but as some posters have pointed out if they come knocking at my door then my days of unrestricted web access are over. If they successfully shutter the internet here then it's only a matter of time before a freedom loving government near you decides to follow suit.

We don't just live in interesting times - we live in dangerous times too.

NASA: THE TRUTH about the END OF THE WORLD on 21 Dec

Not a Moon - it's a Death Star...

"That's no moon. It's a space station..."

Google Search and Maps take a pounding in China

Life behind the Great Firewall

I'm not surprised Google search is truly broken here. When you use it there's a roughly 1 in 3 chance that either it doesn't work at all, or when it does that none of the links work. Additionally, Google Earth stopped working about two weeks ago. The scuttlebut here has it that it's only a matter of time before Google maps is blocked too.

Incidently, when we use Apple's Maps App here it only includes maps of China everywhere else is blacked out. Although Apple unsurprisngly have included lots of islands in the South China Sea currently administered by Vietnam, the Phillipines etc.