China Strangles Tor Ahead of National Day

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 15, 2009 @07:41AM from the not-so-much-into-liberty-y'see dept.

TechReviewAl writes "Technology Review reports that the Chinese government has for the first time targeted the Tor anonymity network. In the run-up to China's National Day celebrations, the government started targeting the sites used to distribute Tor addresses and the number of users inside China dropped from tens of thousands to near zero. The move is part of a broader trend that involves governments launching censorship crackdowns around key dates. The good news is that many Tor users quickly found a way around the attack, distributing 'bridge' addresses via IM and Twitter."

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Re:Surprising by steveb3210 · 2009-10-15 09:03 · Score: 1, Redundant

I imagine the US is Fred, Velma, Daphne, Shaggy, and Scooby (aka Scooby and the gang). This makes China the classic Scooby-Doo villain. I can hear China in my head as I type this... "If it weren't for those meddling kids!"
Everybody who went to school near Amherst, MA knows, Fred is Amherst College Velma is Smith College Shaggy is Hampshire College Daphne is Mt. Holyoke College And my alma mater, UMass, is Scooby Doooooo..