From North America, and I’m going on vacation in china for a few weeks. I wonder if anyone knows if I’ll be able to access any of my self-hosted services over zerotier while I’m abroad?
Edit: To be specific, I’m hoping to ssh into my machine over zerotier in case I need to fix something and back up some photos to my home NAS via rsync or something
Bringing non-disposable technology to China is a mistake in most circumstances.
I wouldn’t access anything nor would I take any tech with you.
Don’t risk it
They can load in spyware that follows you outside the country. Also the whole “if you aren’t intending to do anything illegal” bit really reads like all the piece of shit bootlicking conservatives after George Floyd.
They can’t do that unless they take your devices, gain admin access and install stuff onto it. You don’t just get spyware installed your phone simply by entering a country.
Also the whole “if you aren’t intending to do anything illegal” bit really reads like all the piece of shit bootlicking conservatives after George Floyd.
Except that is a whole different context. The argument doesn’t work if you’re a citizen of a country and granting your government more and more powers. It would apply maybe if you were a Chinese citizen. OP isn’t talking about moving to China or installing a similar government in their home country. They are going on holiday. You can behave yourself and cooperate with their requirements for a few weeks. If you are really against a country having powers to check your phone and devices and such as a matter of principle, not because you’ve got anything to hide, then don’t go.
George Floyd was an American citizen murdered in his own country by the powers that were supposed to protect him. Big difference.
Although I did take precautions myself, such as deleting my memes/downloads folder just in case I saved anything that could be offensive. But it didn’t matter because they didn’t check my phone anyway for simply being there.
China itself cares the most about public disorder and foreign influence. As long as you aren’t intending on causing foreign interference in how they do things and are just going for purposes of tourism/adventure/meeting people, then you’ll be absolutely fine. They don’t really care enough about you to give you special treatment unless you are seen as a threat like that.
People have said that is exactly what happens. Some had full phone scan, other requirement is installing a china app and keeping it on your phone for your stay
I have never heard of that happening. surely that’ll take ages if they had to stick an app on every foreigner’s phone
You have no idea how small these snooping apps can be. Like less than a megabyte and all your traffic goes through a server controlled by the pla and logs everything in and out of your phone whether your on mobile or Wi-Fi.
Yeah but the process of taking a phone, getting the unlock code, installing it, etc.
China isn’t exactly know for rule of law. They could simply decide you are a criminal. When traveling international it is better to play it safe.
If you really need a service I would either bring a disk drive with you or setup limited remote access for yourself that has minimal access. Remember they can force you to hand over things like passwords.
At first, it will probably work. But you will likely lose access after a few days and your servers will be scanned for exploits, so make sure your shit it up to date.
Source: hosted an XMPP server which was summarily banned after 2 days of access from China and then probed/attacked repeatedly until I took it offline.
Look into shadowsocks, or just normal vpn.
Pandafan was quite reliable for me. You might also be able to diy with hk, sg or sk vps instances, but it was a lot of work and a misconfiguration will cut you off.
Normal VPN doesn’t work because they don’t mask themselves. Even Tor bridges don’t work because they are blocked.
Shadowsocks is like 2018 advice, go directly to xray and forget about legacy software
What you’re asking is illegal where you’re going
Best of luck to you
You realize not only Google is blocked, but also Brave search, duckduckgo, everything but Russian and Chinese search engines? You can’t find anything on them except scams and SEO spam
From what I’ve read if you use a VPN it’s pretty simple to get past the great firewall of china. It’s also only technically illegal, and not really punished.
People posting here don’t realize that CN gov IDs and allows certain traffic to get rerouted through a certain VLAN so they can do DPI and record every packet through a beefy expensive tap device to analyze the telemetry later, and potentially build a case against you. If they so choose. And they likely have the capability to trivially decrypt TLS.
Don’t bring in any tech, don’t access your personal net back home, don’t expect any level of actual privacy or good intentions. Just do your business and keep your digital digital persona minimal while there.
as long as you factory reset a google pixel before leaving home why wouldn’t you bring that with you?
AFAIK it’s possible to detect government tampering by using GrapheneOS’ Auditor
I’m asking in good faith but maybe it would be dangerous to stand out by running non-standard OSes
Case against you for doing what exactly? Just don’t break the law. It’s not hard. They’re hardly going to care much about an average American going on holiday unless he intends on causing problems, a disruption, or potentially has useful information
Extremely privileged of you to think that one can simply live a routine life thinking they are safe, while immigrants in the US aren’t breaking the law and still getting rounded up into concentration camps.
China doesn’t have laws enshrined in its constitution to protect immigrants like the US does (yet the Executive Branch barely give a fuck about the law), so they (China) can do whatever they fuck they want. Not defending anyone, just illuminating it since I am ignorant af
