Chinese Human Being Jailed For Selling Vpns That Bypass Peachy Firewall

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In an endeavour to conk along its crackdown on VPNs, Chinese authorities accept arrested a 26-year-old human being for selling VPN software on the Internet.

China's Supreme Court has sentenced Deng Jiewei from Dongguan inwards Guangdong province, around Hong Kong, to ix months inwards prison theater for selling virtual mortal network (VPN) software through his ain modest independent website.

VPN encrypts users' Internet traffic as well as routes it through a distant connecter as well as thence that spider web surfers tin enshroud their identities as well as place information spell accessing websites that are commonly restricted or censored past times whatever country.

Chinese citizens commonly brand run of VPNs to bypass the Great Firewall of China, also known equally the Golden Shield project, which employs a diverseness of tricks to censor the Internet inwards the country.

The projection already blocked access to some 171 out of the world's 1,000 top websites, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Dropbox, as well as The Pirate Bay inwards the country.

But to tighten pocket over the Internet as well as online users, the Chinese authorities announced a 14-month-long crackdown on VPNs inwards the province at the commencement of this year, requiring VPN service providers to obtain prior authorities approval.

The motion made well-nigh VPN vendors inwards the province of 730 1000000 Internet users illegal, as well as has straight off resulted inwards the arrest of Deng, who was convicted of "providing software as well as tools for invading as well as illegally controlling the figurer information system."

According to the courtroom documents posted on the China's Supreme People's Court website, Deng has been selling 2 VPN services on his website since Oct 2015, as well as was initiative of all detained inwards August concluding year.

Deng along amongst his partner Jiang Moufeng made nearly 14,000 Chinese yuan (just US$2,138) selling the VPN software, which allowed users to "visit unusual websites that could non move accessed past times a mainland IP address."

Deng has been establish guilty of intrusions and "illegal command of figurer information organization procedures," and has been sentenced to ix months imprisonment as well as fined 5,000 Chinese yuan.

Deng was truly sentenced inwards March this year, but the online courtroom documents were circulated on a Chinese weblog tracking social media trends inwards China, called What's on Weibo, solely on Sunday.

We reported inwards July that Apple also removed some of the pop VPN apps, including ExpressVPN as well as Star VPN, from its official Chinese app shop inwards companionship to comply amongst the authorities crackdown that volition stay inwards house until March 31, 2018.

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