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OpenSSH is blocked by the Great Firewall in China. Thus useless for that key use case.
by gkanai 13y ago
OpenSSH is blocked by the Great Firewall in China. Thus useless for that key use case.
- ttflee 13y agoTips: Do not choose the cheapest one. The PPTP service I subscribed works most of the time.
- idupree 13y agoIn case you don't know: Don't rely on the integrity or security of PPTP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPTP#Security https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPTP#Security
- ttflee 13y agoIn case that you want to fend off eavesdropping by NSA, you shouldn't. But I simply just want to watch youtube, browse blogspot/wordpress pages and get around of the Great Fire Wall, so I do not care.
- idupree 13y agoI'm not worried about NSA here: they can track my packets even if I use secure VPN software. I'm worried about the coffee-shop-WiFi variety of attacks. You're right that PPTP is fine for your purpose.
- rsync 13y agoIt is ? I traveled through Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen for weeks in November 2011 and was able to ssh anywhere I needed to ... I was staying in nice, expensive, western chain hotels ... perhaps that made a difference ?