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Inside the Great Firewall of China's Tor Blocking
Trailrunner7 writes with an article at Threat Post about China's ability to block Tor. From the article: "The much-discussed Great Firewall of China is meant to prevent Chinese citizens from getting to Web sites and content that the country's government doesn't approve of, and it's been endowed with some near-mythical powers by observers over the years. But it's somewhat rare to get a look at the way that the system actually works in practice. Researchers at Team Cymru got just that recently when they were asked by the folks at the Tor Project to help investigate why a user in China was having his connections to a bridge relay outside of China terminated so quickly. Not only is China able to identify Tor sessions, it can do so in near real-time and then probe the Tor bridge relay and terminate the session within a couple of minutes."
Clearly they're one of the best software engineers in the world when they want to, being capable of real-time packet inspection and probing. China has over 1.7 billion people who almost all want to work in IT. They will rule the world.
for helping us build more robust Tor protocols
Oh, you thought you were going to actually kill the average Chinese citizen's desire for free access to information? You didn't understand that a stronger Tor protocol or something even better than Tor is the actual result of your escalation of the arms race?
You're pretty ignorant about basic human nature, aren't you, you authoritarian assholes.
Oh, and btw you grumpy old shitbags:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/04/world/asia/chinas-president-pushes-back-against-western-culture.html
The reason you are lamenting the influence of Western culture on China, and not basking in pride at the influence of Chinese culture on the West, is because YOU CENSOR EVERYTHING IN YOUR CULTURE. So Chinese Culture is hobbled and decimated. Because you think you can control, nevermind why you think you should control, Chinese thought. Instead of a great big strong tree, you have a demented little broken bush. Because of YOUR efforts at preventing Chinese culture from growing, by censoring everything, you morons
You ignorant controlling douchebags. Your average Chinese citizen understands this, why don't you you stupid old and decrepit paranoid control freaks?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
For those unfamiliar with the concept "face", it's the social equivalent of getting modded -1
I tell you, free speech and freedom in general in America is doomed. The NDAA2012 combined with SOPA is just another brick in the wall on the path towards a completely tyrannical fascist government. Some Americans argue that the USA is there already. Today we are talking about Tor being blocked by the Great Firewall of China. How long will it take before we are talking about the Great Firewall of the USA blocking websites, software like Tor, I2P, Freenet and so on? Beware that western corporations like Intel, Cisco, Nokia and Siemens are the ones who are delivering the technology used by countries like China. The US and the west already has this technology. I do not see it as a question of if but when these technologies will be used in the US and other "free" western countries. The Tor project should be supported. Why people in other countries need it today may be why you need it tomorrow.
9/11: Never forget it was a false-flag operation
This definitely work. I have no problem using SSH even on the standard port in China. Since ssh is encrypted, deep packet inspection is useless, unless they ban SSH altogether, which they don't.