Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

[Chris Edwards <chris () eng gla ac uk>]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Alex Balashov wrote:

| Understood.  I guess the angle I was going more for was:  Is this actually
| practical to do in a country with almost as many Internet users as the US has
| people?
| 
| I had always assumed that broad policies and ACLs work in China, but most
| forms of DPI and traffic pattern analysis aren't practical simply for
| computational feasibility reasons.  Not unless the system were highly
| distributed.

Perhaps they only need make an example of a few, and thus introduce an 
element of fear for everyone else.