Hi all,

American traveling to China for IETF, and making my tech prep plans (bringing a laptop, phone, tablet, kindle, and steam deck). I won’t bias with my current plans too much, but I do already run Linux+LUKS and GrapheneOS.

For those with experience, what tech prep would you do?

Thanks!

  • Dyf_Tfh@piefed.zipEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Yeah It won’t work, you are going to get your VPN IP banned in 15min-a day depending on where you are in China.

    Wireguard may have worked a few years ago, but nowadays you have to use a VPN that specifically tries to hide itself

    Source: me

    • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldOP
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      38 minutes ago

      What is your reference point? Are you in China now and/or Shenzhen specifically? I’ve received conflicting info on this, so I may set up SSH tunnels and/or VPN over https as backups.

      • Dyf_Tfh@piefed.zipEnglish
        2·
        23 minutes ago

        Wasn’t in Shenzhen which I would believe should be less restrictive. It also didn’t help that I was living in a normal appartement and not an hotel. I self hosted wire guard at home (EU) and not on a VPS.

        So definitely not the best case, but I was genuinely surprised that it didn’t work while it worked before.

    • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
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      48 minutes ago

      Haven’t had that problem myself. Sure, being in the IPv4 space of CNPC helps, but I’ve had no issues connecting to my home server VPN from a some residential IPs either.