Лес рубят — щепки летят. Китай продолжает банить VPN к выполнению плана их полного запрета в первой половине следующего года. Банят даже корпоративные VPN.
China's war on VPNs creates havoc at foreign companies
China's war on VPNs creates havoc at foreign companies
Цитата:China has been shutting down virtual private networks, or VPNs, that have allowed users uncensored access to the outside world, with President Xi Jinping calling internet technology a new challenge to sovereignty and security.
The crackdown is causing problems for foreign businesses in the country, as they are now forced to choose between isolation, surveillance or withdrawal.
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Foreign companies are technically exempt from the crackdown, and a senior official at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has denied that foreign companies have been affected. This may have been true in the not so distant past. According to an executive at one of Japan's top three telecom providers, there were no reports of major communication disruptions -- until September.
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"Chinese authorities are disabling VPNs, which is causing the latest rash of troubles," the executive says. Hundreds of VPNs -- including illegal ones -- are said to still exist, but the government "plans to eradicate them by the first half of next year."
China's crackdown gained steam in September. Yahoo was shut down that month, depriving people of yet another search engine in a country where Google is banned. "We cannot do internet searches at all. We telephone colleagues in Japan and ask them to search for us," laments an employee at a Japanese autoparts maker in Guangdong. "They send us information by mail."
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With VPNs shut down, foreign companies are forced to use dedicated lines, essentially held hostage behind China's Great Firewall, where surveillance can only be felt, but not proved. "It's generally believed that internet communications are monitored, but no one knows for sure," one China watcher says. "[U.S. whistleblower] Edward Snowden divulged that the U.S. was intercepting communications. It's only natural to assume that China does the same."
