back to article Chinese snoops try tracking VPN users with fiendish JSONP trickery

Snoops are exploiting vulnerabilities in China’s most frequented websites to target individuals accessing web content which state censors have deemed hostile. Even users who run VPN connections to access websites that are blocked by China’s censorship technology, often called the Great Firewall (GFW), are potentially being …

  1. Mark 85

    Are they taking lessons from NSA?

    Or vice versa? Enquiring minds and all that.....

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Totalitarian regimes are so corrupt they need to spy on their own citizens

    Oh, hang on...

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Facepalm

    Users be Users.

    If you're going to be performing activities that you know Papa C does not approve, and you don't know how to defend your connections, your problem. That is why you need to use your own MITM app and Match / Replace everything that isn't required to perform your activity.

    If you aren't willing to do at least that, stick to what daddy says you can do.

    Everyone thinks their phone is their friend, but it is NOT. People TOR 'all Android applications' using ORBOT, not even knowing that Google is collecting your LAT, LONG, and phone unique identifiers .... sp how is ORBOT helping (It's not .... in fact it is doing the opposite).

    Everyone is running around blind, thinking they're getting one over on the man, without knowing how to use the tech. Good luck clowns.

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