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The Best Way Through the Great Firewall of China

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the route-around-oppression dept.

eldavojohn writes "The MIT Technology Review brings news of a new report from Harvard assessing circumvention software. The best tools they tested (and they actually did test them in cybercafes in China) were Ultrareach, Psiphon, and Tor, while Dynaweb and Anonymizer also scored well — of course, the huge downside is the long loading times. The report also includes responses from developers of the tools."

6 of 118 comments (clear)

  1. Re:SSH anyone by CarpetShark · · Score: 3, Informative

    If I recall correctly, Chani (of KDE fame) once blogged about having difficulty even using SSH from inside China.

  2. Re:Some conclusions from the paper by Ruede · · Score: 3, Informative

    JAP -- german government or better said their intelligence service has a direct interface to it... so what is better chinese or german gov watching your porn downloads?

  3. Re:All encryption requires permission from the Par by electrosoccertux · · Score: 3, Informative

    It depends on where your nationality resides. It is accepted and assumed that Americans/The West (TM) will use encryption because they see us as being very concerned about privacy and protective of our business secrets et al. So if you're American/European and over there, you won't have any trouble using encryption/SSH2/etc. A Chinese citizen, on the other hand, would have more trouble getting away with it.

  4. Re:Best way: by Xtravar · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think the point he's making is that he doesn't trust anybody to use his internet connection.

    Sharing domestically, he could be charged with kiddie porn.

    Sharing internationally, he could be charged with treason/terrorism.

    --
    Buckle your ROFL belt, we're in for some LOLs.
  5. Re:Tunnel SOCKS through SSH? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    firefox has a setting to route DNS requests through the socks proxy as well.

    network.proxy.socks_remote_dns

  6. Re:My experience in China (Nov. 2008) by julian67 · · Score: 4, Informative

    "This presents an interesting chicken and egg problem with circumvention software. How do you get the software in the first place if it's source of the software package is censored?"

    apt-get install tor privoxy

    I've been in countries where use of any method to circumvent state censorship is criminal, all known proxies are blocked, all proxifying/anonymising software websites are blocked, tor.eff.org is blocked and so on. But there are Debian mirrors hosted by the state funded university. No more censorship :-)