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Tunneling Under the Great Firewall?
An anonymous reader writes "I am traveling to China in the near future, and needless to say as a Slashdot reader I am going to require access to the Internet. The whole, unadulterated, unfiltered Internet. Also needless to say, I am very leery of the government there (my lack of a nickname on this submission being testament to that). I will only be there for a few weeks, and will not be using the computer for much of that time, so I don't want to shell out a lot of money to a VPN service. However I also don't want to be hindered by extremely slow speeds such as those provided by the Tor network. I have experience implementing Web servers and work fairly often with Linux; however, many of my friends who also face the same dilemma don't. What would be the most cost-effective (free is best) method for me to subvert the Great Firewall during my travels while maintaining sufficient anonymity and enjoying sufficient speed?"
Just change your online name to "FreeTibet". They'll never notice.
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So when China asks slashdot how best to catch people circumventing their firewall, how would they do it? They might pretend to be a western touron visiting their fair nation and asking some innocent questions about firewall circumvention. If any of these methods are effective, they are likely to cease being effective now that they are widely published. Either way, the anonymity of the poster prevents direct help and indicates perhaps a clever approach to hardening the firewall.
As long as we are going with "things the original author specifically discounted in his post", I think he should purchase VPN service...
Or more specifically, he should shell out a lot of money for one.
Caution! The original questions at the top of this page might have been posted by an agent of the Chinese government, so that all answers offered could be used to eliminate holes in the Great Firewall.
Lucky for them, they can still obtain GhettoBSD: 2010 GhettoBSD aquired by Chinese company who infiltrated Google.ch. Now more secure!
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