China's Battle to Police the Web 171
What_the_deuce writes "For the first time in years, internet browsers are able to visit the BBC's website. In turn, the BBC turns a lens on the Chinese web-browsing experience, exploring one of the government's strongest methods of controlling the communication and information accessible to the public. 'China does not block content or web pages in this way. Instead the technology deployed by the Chinese government, called Golden Shield, scans data flowing across its section of the net for banned words or web addresses. There are five gateways which connect China to the internet and the filtering happens as data is passed through those ports. When the filtering system spots a banned term it sends instructions to the source server and destination PC to stop the flow of data.'"
Can get out with VPN (Score:2, Informative)
Re:SSL? Freenet? (Score:4, Informative)
I would like to know what else they are using. I might learn a thing or two from it.
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Re:Remind me again, why does China have MFN status (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Who wrote the software? Supplied the hardware? (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?lang=e&id=50A38A55EB758C0C80256C72004773CD [amnestyusa.org]
Re:Remind me again, why does China have MFN status (Score:3, Informative)
Re:SSL? Freenet? (Score:3, Informative)
Well, that would be my immediate choice. I do it from work sometimes if I don't their filters catching me.
You need a cooperative machine outside the firewall. Then you ssh to it. SSH can act as a SOCKS proxy if you give it the "-D" option and a port number.
Firefox and IE can both be set to browse using the proxy. Firefox even has a setting (in about:config or whatever it is) to do DNS through the proxy as well. Then everything is encrypted and travelling over a tunnel to the friendly box outside.
Extremely simple.