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Not yet mentioned here is a commercial product: Primedius webtunnel.

This is an encrypted proxy system for browsing etc.; there are multiple proxy servers available worldwide and I've never had difficulty logging on to a tunnel from inside most Asian regimes, though my primary reason is to get around site restrictions, not avoiding traffic snooping.

Unlike TOR, Primedius' product (servers) does not seem routinely blocked, even in China, though my take is that WebTunnel is so rarely used that the "regimes" have better uses for their time than following/blocking it. If WebTunnel was regularly used then it might get more attention, and I am not sure if Primedius would be interested in working around that problem.

WebTunnel traffic is encrypted, but you would likely wish to examine that issue -- that is, how secure they really are -- in depth if you were to use it vs. a regime.

On a separate note, a more effective strategy might simply be to use VNC or Terminal Services etc to make connections to a server in a "free" country, doing all your work on the remote machine. Many companies offer such services at about $50/year/user and you may find them willing to offer a discount for "political" purposes, especially if the company can get free press by supporting you. Then you simply need a way around keyloggers if you want to use public terminals -- Knoppix etc if you are sure keylogging does not occur on a hardware level.

Another "trick" around keylogging that I didn't see above is to have a non-standard (random) keyboard layout installed on the remote terminal-- frustrating to learn, but your traffic will look incomprehensible. However note that (even if you keep switching layouts) this can be defeated by serious analysis of your traffic: it's just a matter of testing which ASCII code matches which character...

Try Primedius they seem to support free speech.

http://www.primedius.com/safeList.htm/

Try Primedius WebTunnel http://www.primedius.com/

They have an anti-censorship peer network for getting around such firewalls/filters.

Nothing new, Primedius WebTunnel http://www.primedius.com/ already has a USB version, and you don't need to boot into a new OS. Works with your existing desktop.

I like Primedius because it's much more powerful than what I hear Metropipe is....let's you use HTTP, SOCKS, NTTP, etc.

Plus they have some sort of peer network that allows you access to sites that have been blocked/censored. Rumor has it that they have a huge overseas userbase.

The wonder that is slashcode has been updated so only subscribers can FP.

Please note than IP banning does not work if you use Primedius.

What if they used anonymous surfing software like Primedius, or Anonymizer, could they still be tracked?

Check out
www.primedius.com
You can surf even through corporate proxies without being logged.
All encrypted, anonymous, etc, etc. Pretty decent speed too...