China anti-censorship tool users say that their servers no longer work as the latest upgrade on the "Great Firewall" seemingly blocks them.
A recent report by the censorship monitoring team so-called the Great Firewall, or shortly known as GFW, discloses that over a hundred users of anti-censorship tools are now reporting that they have been blocked.
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China Reportedly Blocks Anti-Censorship Tools
As per the latest report by South China Morning Post, the GFW Report on a recent GitHub post says that the tools, which were supposed to avoid the detection of the China Firewall, have been unusable.
However, the GFW Report says that one of the anti-censorship projects appears to have dodged the latest upgrade on the China Great Firewall.
To be more precise, NaiveProxy still works as intended. The GFW Report explains that its unique design must have allowed it to overcome the purging of other anti-censorship tools in the Chinese territory.
It is to note that the said anti-censorship project makes it appears that transport layer security (TLS) connections are straight from the top web browsers, such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
But despite that, the rest of the anti-censorship protocols seems to have been completely blocked. It reportedly includes gRPC, VLESS, Xray, trojan, and TLS+Websocket.
The Hong Kong-based news outlet, the South China Morning Post, says that these proxy protocols allow users to browse the web without looking like they are using a traditional virtual private network or VPN.
According to a report by IT Pro UK, users of these censorship circumvention measures say that it has been since October 3.
The GFW Report further notes that their estimates show that "more than half of all Chinese netizens who circumvent internet censorship use TLS-based circumvention strategies." But this time, it looks like China has begun blocking them.
China 'Great Firewall' Upgrade?
IT Pro UK notes that the widespread blocking of anti-censorship tools could potentially hint that the Chinese nation is looking to upgrade the Great Firewall.
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Passengers use their mobile phones on a subway train in Beijing on September 28, 2022.
It coincidentally comes as the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party nears, which is scheduled on Oct. 16.
The UK media outlet says that the National Congress centers on the discussion of strategies for the Chinese nation in the next half-decade.
On top of that, the South China Morning Post reports that the upcoming political event is set to extend the term of the current China President Xi Jinping. The move should make him monumentally the first Chinese leader to have reigned as the general secretary of the Communist Party for a total of three terms since Mao Zedong, the Hong Kong media reports.
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Written by Teejay Boris
