How Some Chinese Users Bypass The Great Firewall

Posted by timothy on Friday November 30, 2012 @11:03PM from the differentially-censored dept.

CowboyRobot writes "The ACM has an article describing the history and present of the Great Firewall of China (GFW). 'Essentially, GFW is a government-controlled attacking system, launching attacks that interfere with legitimate communications and affecting many more victims than malicious actors. Using special techniques, it successfully blocks the majority of Chinese Internet users from accessing most of the Web sites or information that the government doesn't like. GFW is not perfect, however. Some Chinese technical professionals can bypass it with a variety of methods and/or tools. An arms race between censorship and circumvention has been going on for years, and GFW has caused collateral damage along the way.'"

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Re:Ignore this story by overmoderated · 2012-12-01 00:34 · Score: 3, Funny

I love panda steak with some whale sauce.
Re:Recently attempts are made to block UDP VPNs by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-01 01:24 · Score: 2, Funny

What are you doing? I should report you to the authorities for violating the law.
People like you make me ashamed to be Chinese.
Re:So it's just like... by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-12-01 10:15 · Score: 3, Funny

i dont think sony ever killed people for bypassing drm though...
That doesn't conclusively demonstrate that they don't want to.

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