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Worth pointing out that this happened on the same day that TestFlight increases the number of beta testers from 2k to 10k. If someone open sources an iOS VPN ap
by npunt 9y ago
Worth pointing out that this happened on the same day that TestFlight increases the number of beta testers from 2k to 10k. If someone open sources an iOS VPN app, you've now got 10k people that can sideload an app via the efforts of a single person with an apple developer account.
Obviously this is a loophole and not meant as a mainstream solution, but past solutions to getting around the great firewall (including VPN itself) have also been only for the technically informed and connected - often foreigners working in China. Basically it lets the technical elite have a way around the firewall to keep business running.
Personally I think it's unlikely these two bits of news are connected (upping testflight is likely about iOS 11), but still it may have a positive effect until it, too, is clamped down on.
- prewett 9y agoI think anyone can download Xcode and compile to their device, so there's nothing stopping an open-source VPN app.
- npunt 9y agoTrue, and really there's always some kind of super-high friction loophole in computing. For these types of loopholes to have an impact though a) people have to know about them, b) people have to be able to do them, and c) they have to be easy to do. TestFlight is as easy as getting an email, downloading the testflight app, and downloading the app you need. Its a trivial amount of steps, which makes it a powerful loophole.