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Bypassing access without VPN

July 6, 2024 | 3:54 WATCH

Ask most Western OSINT practitioners how to reach a site that's blocked to them, and you'll get one answer. VPN. Then a different VPN. Then a better VPN.

The platforms were built by people who assumed you'd bring a VPN.

That's the part the reflex misses. Geo-blocking on Chinese platforms isn't a fence you step around — it's designed against the exact tool everyone reaches for first. So the VPN fails, and the investigator concludes the door is shut.

It isn't. It just doesn't open the way you were taught. This session is about thinking past the default — where the actual openings are, and why they work.

This is one of the methods covered across the China OSINT programs. The full treatment — the reasoning, the failure cases, and what to do when a route stops working — is what the trainings are for.

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