Security News > 2017 > September > Chinese Man Jailed For Selling VPNs that Bypass Great Firewall (The Hackers News)
2017-09-05 02:36
In an effort to continue its crackdown on VPNs, Chinese authorities have arrested a 26-year-old man for selling VPN software on the Internet. China's Supreme Court has sentenced Deng Jiewei from Dongguan in Guangdong province, close to Hong Kong, to nine months in prison for selling virtual private network (VPN) software through his own small independent website. <!-- adsense --> VPN encrypts
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