This is pretty depressing. It seems like the Chinese government, in creating new more powerful Internet censorship methods, is outpacing services to circumvent it.
People like those of us reading this site probably won't have much trouble finding ways around it, but it seems people (esp. Chinese) who would normally hop the Great Firewall with ease using VPNs/proxy will have to put in more effort/get more technical to do that successfully, and i'm afraid that they won't want to bother.
The thing I fear most is that if anti-ssh/ssl/tor/vpn measures start to be somewhat effective, western governments will also see it as an excuse to implement them in the guise of "crime prevention", just now that services such as gmail are finally adopting it as default.
Which means we'd be forced back to a 90's level of internet security at least for consumers, I'm sure corporations will be able to 'buy' the right to use encryption...
People like those of us reading this site probably won't have much trouble finding ways around it, but it seems people (esp. Chinese) who would normally hop the Great Firewall with ease using VPNs/proxy will have to put in more effort/get more technical to do that successfully, and i'm afraid that they won't want to bother.