Yes, meets other parts of the criteria.
I emailed them not too long ago, it’s happening, probably due soon.
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Both are good for different reasons.
An audit by cryptography professionals can check to see whether the method of encryption is actually sound. Source code is also important because it is helpful to be able to see the actual implementation.
What we say though is source code isn’t everything, because if nobody really looks at the source because the project is obscure and has minimal external interest a backdoor or known vulnerability could remain without detection.
In the case of Cryptomator that meets both open source and having an audit, but requires you to find somewhere to host your data (which can be any provider).
Yes then you can use Rclone to sync to other providers. There are usability compromises however. This may be an option depending on what kind of data you plan on storing there. If it’s photos Ente or Stingle might be a better option because they do the encryption in the browser.
Likely government would come to you for the password. There is nothing Tresorit can do to bypass that even if they wanted to. That’s the nature of E2EE.
Any provider will really do then with Cryptomator as you won’t be necessarily able to open all of those in your browser.
privacyguides.org is indeed blocked in China, it is probably the first country to do so.
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I seem to remember someone saying Azerbaijan had blocked us 
(You’ll have to trust me on this one)
Github is not banned in China, but it is rather limited. High rates limit, and sometimes it wouldn’t work if you input url directly. Go in bing or baidu and put Github.
But with an account, it is crazy fast. Remember that Github is Microsoft owned and Microsoft is present in China. Thankfully though we haven’t seen a censored github.cn. The Chinese alternative is gitee.io which surprisingly give no results when searching for VPN.
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Do Windscribe even meet the criteria of >
Public-facing leadership or ownership ?
I haven’t found any info about that on their website>
Yes, and I’ve chatted with some of those people via email. @yegor is even on this very forum.
More of the team can be seen at https://wellfound.com/company/windscribe/people
Do we know if people who has studied in China will be on a list by the US, potentially (probably not) being blacklisted to work in US related supply chain?
Do you intend to work for a US-based corporation in the future or just locally in your SEA country?
They should add it to their website, as when I searches 12069 Windscribe Limited, I had no result.
Here is an interesting fact:
In China, mobile apps are regularly checked and tested by an agency of the Ministry of Public Security for illegal collection of personal information, the test results are published and the apps found to be in violation of government regulations (not the “community guidelines” of the app store) will be ordered to be removed from app stores (of which there are several in China).
In most countries, people have no choice but to play by the rules of the app store duopoly – Google and Apple.
The latest publication was on Juyl 23, 2025.
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Is this really feasible? Let say one is traveling for 2 weeks in China mainland visiting some cities. Can we do that without using WeChat / Alipay or is super inconvenient? I heard many places don’t have change.
ou can still use cash to purchase anything, but using electronic payment (WeChat/Alipay) will reduce a lot of hassle (avoiding price fraud).
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Ironically, your best play is to knuckle down and do what it says on paper, a university candidate who is autistic focused on his degree program. No political opinions. Probably watches cartoons or tv shows.
Privacy is for when you are out of the country and can located signed software that you can trust.
CCP officials can walk into your apartment at night to destroy house plants during mosquito season. I have never heard of anyone from outside China going to a Chinese university by choice. Many Chinese students come here to study and have nothing good to say about China.
This YouTube channel is enlightening. Take it with a grain of salt but they do post some real footage.
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I might be wrong but this is the case for any foreign SIM that can roam into China. I would guess that they don’t want to hurt tourism and the risk of chinese citizens getting access to it is pretty low.
Yes that’s definitely true, especially for small restaurants. I wouldn’t say it’s impossible, but definitely not convenient. Not sure how you would in place with automatic registry.
Most Chinese applications are poorly designed, bloated and usually insecure. Try your best to avoid them. I use Proton VPN in China, others don’t work. And If possible set up a VLESS proxy with XHTTP and REALITY as backup.
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