Very sad. Though I have an alternative apple account outside CN, prepared for this long time ago, it still brings me some inconvenience. These days you can't trust any mega corp, they will eventually store our (Chinese citizen's) data in CN.<p>Another explanation is the upcoming 19th National Congress of CCP. Recently many policies have been published to restrict freedom of speech, indicating the leader now might desire another 5 year presidency.
So does the Great Firewall do deep packet inspection? I take it that it does, and blocks any protocols that it detects that allow tunneling/traversing the firewall.<p>What if there was a method of changing the standard data formats to be randomized based on one time authorization codes? So your SSH/SSL/L2TP/etc was mangled around to something corresponding to a one time auth function. Basically pre-encrypting or obfuscating to avoid the deep packet inspection.
Seems like something similar would happen in Russia this Fall too. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-internet-idUSKBN1AF0QI?il=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-internet-idUSKBN1A...</a>
Speedify got pulled Saturday morning: "your application will be removed from the China App Store because it includes content that is illegal in China, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines: 5. Legal"
It sucks that you can't simply sideload apps like with Android (it is possible but has many restrictions). That's my main gripe with iOS. Without Apple's servers your device is virtually useless. Apple pulling those apps would be a non-issue.
What exactly is a "VPN app" for iOS? How does it work? I was under the impression that iOS natively supports VPNs through IPsec (and perhaps a few other technologies), and that it doesn't have tap/tun devices, nor it allows installing kernel drivers to create tap/tun devices so you could not use e.g. OpenVPN.<p>So what do these VPN apps actually do? Are they just a front-end for some service, but the phone still uses IPsec? If that is the case I assume you can configure IPsec manually?<p>Can someone explain? A link to some technical document would be amazing.<p>Thank you!
Now, if china makes them pull shadowsocks(R) clients from the apple/app/itunes store...then we'll know they are serious. Sorry for all the vpners in china on apple, at least you can go get a cheap android device in china and monkey around and patch together a mobile vpn based solution of some sort.
<a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R706isyDrqI" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R706isyDrqI</a><p>Perhaps someone should show Tim Cook.