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Can’t you just select US sad your country when setting up the iCloud account and use a VPN? Or are Chinese devices different at the hardware level and only allo
by Rjevski 8y ago
Can’t you just select US sad your country when setting up the iCloud account and use a VPN? Or are Chinese devices different at the hardware level and only allow connecting to the Chinese (compromised) iCloud?
- btian 8y agoVPNs in China get blocked all the time.
- torstenvl 8y agoEven private VPNs? I'm not that smart about networking but it seems like it would be difficult to distinguish an SSL/TLS connection to your DigitalOcean server because you're doing normal stuff and one where you're tunneling HTTPS through it.
- selectodude 8y agoTheir deep packet inspection tech is very very good.
- viraptor 8y agoIt's not hard to distinguish a VPN connection by behaviour pattern really. Some simple features to detect: Both small packets and maxing out the window size in one stream. Lack of DNS queries from the host. Single connection dominating the bandwidth. There's a reason for all of those of course, but put them together on a residential connection: almost certainly a VPN user. And these are all really simple heuristics. In practice, we know you can identify which Netflix video are you watching just by the packet sizes/timing.
- earenndil 8y agoThere was a post recently about how someone was able to set up his own vpn which bypassed it. Something about the server padding out its response with garbage data?
- teknologist 8y agoYou are still piping all of your traffic through one server. This would not look like a regular usage pattern by any means.
- chatmasta 8y agoYou need a payment method with a billing address in the country.
- Rjevski 8y agoI believe there are tricks you can use to bypass that (attempting to download a free app?).