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Yes They Are Distinct, But ...
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 22 2012 @ 10:52 PM EST
.. the article linked in your original post states, or at least implies, that
what the Chinese were after was blocking people from acquiring VPN apps. The
article states that prior to Apple using https: "searches for terms
relating to such [VPN] apps were blocked and resulted in a reset of one's
connection to the App Store".

So if blocking VPN is the Chinese govt's real aim, their recent direct attack on
VPN traffic is more to the point and there is no need to block all https traffic
as you suggest. (I started the subthread below your original post on this
topic.)

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

I know they are two different things
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 23 2012 @ 12:42 AM EST
China has now proved it can detect VPN traffic and -block- it.
Blocking is used because cracking is currently too expensive.
Apple's move to https may not be so clever, since it is relatively
(compared to VPN) trivial to bypass https when you have control
of the gateway routers. Yes, it still costs the effort of setting up
a MITM attack on every potentially interesting https session.
Can China afford that? Watch this space.


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