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Ah. Seems dumb of them. There are millions of Chinese people all around the world that will be trying to email their family back home. Why block just one email
by 3pt14159 12y ago
Ah. Seems dumb of them. There are millions of Chinese people all around the world that will be trying to email their family back home. Why block just one email provider? Why try to segregate yourself from the world's email network? It isn't even going to work because what every Chinese person will do is get a tunnel to sign up for the non-Chinese email service (maybe even Gmail!) and it will just further push people to use encryption.
If the Chinese government were shrewd, they would do what the American government does: make using American servers as easy as possible then spy on the contents.
- Chronic30 12y agoWhy block one email provider? Because China isn't a fan of Google. Yes they will be cut off from the world. But if you want to communicate with the Chinese, you will simply use something other than Gmail.
- diminoten 12y agoChina might have figured out how to read the other major email providers. If I worked in Yahoo!'s SOC this'd put me on high alert.
- maged 12y agoSo those millions of Chinese people use a Chinese service instead.
- z3t4 12y agoPossible because they don't want USA/NSA to read their mail. And probably because they can't force Google to let them read "their" mail.