Explore the Web From China 165
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Download.com:
"It slows down your browsing. It makes some Web sites inaccessible for no discernible reason. It doesn't even offer you any xiao long bao or pu'er tea for your troubles. But if you want to know what life behind the Great Firewall of China is like, then the Firefox plug-in China Channel is the cheapest and fastest way to experience using the Internet in China without actually being there."
Answer: Proxy (Score:5, Informative)
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I just found in TFA where it says that the plugin routes you through a Chinese proxy.
I can't imagine this open proxy will last long.
Re:Meh (Score:4, Informative)
I can't even tell if you're joking. I can't even tell if that's ironic or just depressing.
Re:Hm (Score:4, Informative)
For the record, the Australian proposal is unlikely to go ahead, due to opposition in the senate [theage.com.au]. Yay for divided parliament.
Re:A bit off-topic, but... (Score:4, Informative)
tc qdisc add dev eth1 root hadle ee:0 tbf rate 56kbit burst 8Kb latency 100ms
Which basically means something like add a Token Bucket Filter queue discipline to the interface eth1 with the handle ee:0 (arbitrary if this is the only discipline) using those properties. There's other kinds of filters too. You can just run this on your Linux router/firewall (on the port from the router to your mac). You do have a Linux router and a Mac right? The best part is that since it's running on the router it's platform independent downstream. I think I saw a shareware bit on macupdate that does what you're asking directly on your mac (this might be it? [macupdate.com]) but if you already have a router in place the linux route is great and you can tweak it via ssh, switching add for change.
Cheers, Ed
Re:Meh (Score:2, Informative)
As an example, some guys like to play as many girls as they can. I know you may doubt it, but it has been known to happen.
Knowing who they are really talking to makes them feel safer. I know that is something that Slashdoters may think is silly; but, not everyone online is who or what they say they are... really...
Re:Or, for Aussies... (Score:5, Informative)
Regarding the Australian filter, it doesn't look like it's going to happen.
The Green party and the Liberal party are both going to block the legislation in the Upper House. Their numbers combined are enough to stop the bill from passing.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/10/30/1224956188036.html [theage.com.au]
The Greens don't get much of their other policies talked about very much, besides the environment, but they have the most pro-Slashdot internet platform out of any political party. By that I mean they support open standards, net-neutrality and internet freedom (no censorship). They also want the government to embrace open source and all government documents to saved in an open document standard.
China SSH MiTM attack [lkbm] (Score:0, Informative)
Did you check that your computer had the right key when you ssh'ed into your home computer?
I understand that they do a Man In The Middle Attack on every ssh connection!
China SSH MiTM attack [lkbm] (Idiotic moderator!) (Score:1, Informative)
No you stupid moderator! This is not flamebait! Try connecting to an ssh server through China, and you'll see that the server ssh key changes every time, which means: Man In The Middle.
(And no, I'm not talking about the Middle Spoon here. It's not a good thing)
Re:TFA is terrible (Score:1, Informative)
Here is a nice list of proxies: http://www.samair.ru/proxy/