Originally Posted by
STS-134
It's a cat and mouse game. Circumvention technologies evolve along with censorship. I mean, I had a friend who got free internet access from one of those airport hotspots. How did he do it? Well, although they were careful to block every protocol except DNS, they left DNS open to any DNS server in the world without authentication, so he programmed his DNS server to tunnel data traffic over DNS queries and responses. It was slow as hell but he was able to get data in and out.
Not sure how this example would apply to the average person, and I include myself in that. Yes, the very few activist bloggers would be able to get their information out, maybe, but not the average Jo. It's genuinely possible that the average Wuhan resident hasn't tried to access anything except WeChat and gov approved sites the last 3 weeks...so maybe we can't really tell, but most major international news channels have been trying to keep in touch with 'local reporters' to some extent, would be surprised if none of those people had noticed anything.
tb