Popular Mainland Chinese VPN Shut Down by Authorities

Popular Mainland Chinese VPN Shut Down by Authorities
Aug 25, 2015 By eChinacities.com

A Chinese VPN developer was forced to shut down his program by Beijing authorities this past Saturday. It is clear that China is currently attempting to once again tighten its control on the Internet.

The VPN in question is a base program to create proxy tools called Shadowshocks that was popular among Mainland Chinese. The proxy tool's creator, clowwindy, stored the project's code on Github, until he was forced to take it down by authorities. The code for the project still exists, but clowwindy will not be able to update the program in the future.

Another program commonly used in Mainland China to get over the Great Firewall, Apricot, was also recently removed by authorities.

A Beijing lawyer told a human rights group back in May that more than one person has been arrested for creating circumvention software or other methods to help others scale the Great Firewall.

Source: china.dnews.com

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Keywords: Shadowsocks Chinese VPN Great Firewall clowwindy

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Aug 26, 2015 02:58 Report Abuse

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