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Bypassing The Great Firewall of China
An anonymous reader writes "On the BBC website they have a article about bypassing China's firewall for those living inside the country. It covers the usual idea of proxies or sending the content by e-mails. But it also suggests that with enough proxies the goverment couldn't block them all."
If you're *in China* and they're blocking the BBC, how can this be useful?
Cruising the internet on my TI-99/4A @ a whopping 300 baud!
Hello:
How (specifically) can I help?
I would like to assist with this process of free dissemination of information. If anyone has a suggestion how I might do that, please post here. I'm a normal user with an always-on DSL connection, run a normal webserver, and would like to assist with this.
-- Kevin J. Rice
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Just what we need to give the Chiniese people, an unlimited supply of open proxies to use!
Don't you already get enough spam from them?!
symetrix. We are building a religion, a limited edition.
Then the government will simply block everything and allows access to "approved" website.
The worst problem is the Chinese government heavily brainwash its people with controlled media etc, so most Chinese people don't believe in any information from the outside world. I'm glad Hong Kong still has uncensored Internet access, for now.
It's pretty easy to block if you've a country like China.
I'm sure there are a manageable number of ISP class international internet leased lines in China.
Just stick transparent content filters on them and you'll be set for most stuff.
Sure https/SSL stuff can be problematic, but not many big sites provide http proxies because it costs more in CPU and complexity. It's already easy enough to find normal http proxies and shut them down. You might even be able to automate some of it.
As for peer to peer https proxies, what if the Chinese gov controls/subverts some of the "peer" machines? You're going to need some rather fancy tech - the simple method of identifying "trusted" proxies won't work coz that means the Chinese Gov can identify them and take action.
Back in my day, we didn't have no fancy peer-to-peer proxies. We tunneled through by force of will and we liked it.
Actually, it's rather amazing how effective technologically enforced censorship is given the size of the tireless community dedicated to bypassing it.
Look ma, no tpyos^H^H^H^H^H^H . . . oh crap.
Isn't that what the Peekabooty project was supposed to fix?