The lag, inconsistencies and general mayhem that the GFW is causing for blockchain services inside China and users and miners of blockchains such as the Bitcoin experiment outside China working with Chinese miners should be a wake up call.
If the UK wants to continue have a banking or any professional contract services industry then this idea of clogging up VPNs through UK's boundaries is a non starter. Christian Marek Isalski wrote: >> On 20 Jan 2016, at 12:04, Neil J. McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >> Any middle box is expensive and I love how people think encryption solves >> these problems! > > I don't think people think encryption solves problems (at least not for > ISPs). As encryption becomes more pervasive (customers' reaction to their > DNS being logged; or their HTTP being logged; or whatever ISPs end up > compelled to do), so the cost to ISPs increases. The end-game of the crypto > arms race is that $our customers buy VPNs, and UK government forces $us to > block consumer VPNs that are terminated outside UK jurisdiction (because > $terrorism or $copyright or whatever). From there, one only needs to look at > what little we know of the Great Firewall of China to get a glimpse of the > challenge and costs to $us to disrupt VPNs. > > e.g. http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=81 - "It is only after I reached this point > in my tests that I did some deeper reading and learned that the GFW uses > machine learning algorithms to learn, discover, and block VPNs and proxies." > > Machine learning firewalls sound like a significant bite at profits for any > ISP. > > Marek Isalski > AS41495 -- Christian de Larrinaga FBCS, CITP, ------------------------- @ FirstHand ------------------------- +44 7989 386778 [email protected] -------------------------
