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Googling Behind China's Great Firewall
xcham writes "The OpenNet Initiative, a joint project of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, and the Advanced Network Research Group at Cambridge, have released a bulletin regarding the type of filtering applied to Google by the Chinese government. Most notably, certain keywords are filtered, as well as Google's 'cache' function. More information on how the keyword filtering is implemented is available in a previous bulletin."
Really? Why is it that I can never access the San Jose Mercury news web site when I am in China, regardless of where the connection originates from?
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
A private shell account isn't an open proxy, and you can't search SSH connections.
It's encrypted, you know.
"There are already some laws in place that prevent US citizens from viewing foreign content, concerning security patches etc. on some foreign software."
Wow, that's news to me. Sources please?
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
FYI:
"Can You See The Great Wall of China from The Moon?
For some reason, some urban legends tend to get stated and never disappear. This legend even appears as a erroneous Trivial Pursuit question. The legend? Many are familiar with the claim that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from space or from the moon with the naked eye. This is simply not true. From a low orbit of the earth, many artificial objects are visible on the earth, such as highways, ships in the sea, railroads, cities, fields of crops, and even some individual buildings. While at a low orbit, the Great Wall of China can certainly be seen from space but it is not unique in that regard. However, when leaving the earth's orbit and acquiring an altitude of more than a few thousand miles, no man-made objects are visible at all. NASA says, "The Great Wall can barely be seen from the Shuttle, so it would not be possible to see it from the Moon with the naked eye." Thus, it'd be tough to spot the Great Wall of China or any other object from the moon. Furthermore, from the moon, even the continents are barely visible."
Actually if you RTFA you'll see that they filter HTTP GET requests using packet sniffing... then they just send a reset packet effectivily killing access.
Sometimes I wish computers were less friendly.
this is the site which shows the mirror image of corresponding Google page.This gets u thru the great chinese firewall :))
fifteen jugglers, five believers
I think he's piling some additional confusion on top of Alan Cox's already nonsensical claims that revealing the details of security patches is illegal under the DMCA.
Name one right the government has taken away from you in the last 4 years. How about the fourth amendment. Go read the patriot act section 213 for more.
Here is a wiki which discusses abt the Internet censorship in China
fifteen jugglers, five believers
I do to. A squid proxy running on port 8080 back home is a worker's best friend.
I tried every decent and legal way I could think of to resolve the issue w/the business before I rented the chicken suit
All the chinese goverment is doing is fooling themselves.
People will notice in the course of daily conversation that certain words when typed won't go through and they will improvise. Soon a whole sub-language will develop and the goverment will be back at square 1.
I'd ask my housemate from China about it, but i can't articulate this sort of topics very well in Chinese.
Sometimes I wish I was a plumber, then I'd know how to deal with other people's shit.
Talk about censorship going out of control.
Triangle Boy is/was a anonymous, encrypted proxy system that had a distributed structure. Anyone could run one, and publish it's IP. I think you can understand why the Chinese gov't would want to block people from finding it.
I don't know if it still exists, but Google brings up lots of (old) links.
Personally, I use SSH to tunnel to a remove private Squid proxy to get around evil corporate firewalls/filtering. I don't know if SSH would work from within China or not though. It would probably be dreadfully slow though.
Nothing to see here; Move along.
Of course - after all, how would they know when they've never been to the Moon ;-)
Joking aside - to quote a China-friendly source, their first astronaut said it indeed wasn't visible when he was up in the space.
As an aside, I set up a simple unencrypted squid proxy on a box in the USA, and whenever I encounter "the block", I just hit F12-x in Opera, and reload the site. The simplest of proxies will defeat the Great Firewall.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Yeah, I was pretty stoked when they finally ported it over. Here's the latest build of PuTTY hosted off a web page -- quite convenient for Internet Cafes. (If ActiveX is going to be insecure, we can at least make it useful.)
--Dan
Most people who hear the words "air rifle" remember the lever action Daisy B-B guns, and they remember B-B gun battles with their friends. The worst anyone ever went home with was a stinging bruise, (no, Mom, nobody put their eye out) and everyone had a great time.
Modern air rifles are nothing like those B-B guns. Compare the Daisy to my rifled RWS Diana 350 which fires a pellet at 1250 fps. You can even buy actual rimfire .22 caliber ammo that isn't that fast. Believe me when I say that I would NOT want to get shot by this springer. It's a great varmint gun -- very quiet and powerful enough to kill small game. But don't confuse it with the toys of your childhood.
I can certainly understand why Michigan would consider it to be in the same class as a firearm. It performs substantially the same tasks.
John
and I can read /. sans all the conspiracy theories and communist America predictions....
s/communist/fascist
"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead." (John Maynard Keynes)
...as since the ActiveX thingy is not propperly signed.
BTW, the government is cracking down on porn sites by asking ordinary people to help, and this action is quite popular among most people. Personally I'm indifferent to this, since although I don't visit porn sites, such cracking-downs may well extend to sites disagreeing with the Party, some of the information in which can be quite instructive to a Chinese student (even for someone who mostly supports the Party!). The ironic thing is that although hardcore porn sites are not easy to find in China, and porn is indeed illegal, it is still hard to find a news site that porn-paranoid parents can allow their children to roam freely... you need to be really careful not to stumble onto some pornographic material (or things that are obviously very unsuitable for children) on the biggest news sites.