Bypassing The Great Firewall of China 27
An anonymous reader writes "On the BBC website they have a article about bypassing China's firewall for those living inside the country. It covers the usual idea of proxies or sending the content by e-mails. But it also suggests that with enough proxies the goverment couldn't block them all."
Yeah but (Score:5, Funny)
Re:empty (Score:1)
Since the article actually talks about peer-to-peer networks of proxies, I think the point being made is that neat technological ideas can lead to orders of magnitude more proxies -- and it is unlikely that the PRC can follow with orders of magnitude more censors.
How Can I Help? (Score:3, Interesting)
How (specifically) can I help?
I would like to assist with this process of free dissemination of information. If anyone has a suggestion how I might do that, please post here. I'm a normal user with an always-on DSL connection, run a normal webserver, and would like to assist with this.
-- Kevin J. Rice
Re:How Can I Help? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:How Can I Help? (Score:2)
Why do you want to contribute to this obvious treason on the part of the Chinese people? If they didn't like the way their government runs things then they would have a revolution and change it. Since they don't we should only assume it is a very pea
Re:How Can I Help? (Score:2)
I didn't know freedom was a purely western ideal.
Re:How Can I Help? (Score:2)
Well, unfortunately since the advent of heavy weaponry, just having a revolution isn't that simple. Especially in a country that is as tightly controlled and policed as China.
Obviously it's still possible (USSR), but it is surely not simple.
Ahem... (Score:2)
Hi, this is the Government of the Peoples Republic of China. Just to let you know, Gwai Lo, you're one dead motherfucker. Sleep tight.
Sincerely,
The Commies
Re:How Can I Help? (Score:1)
Great (Score:4, Insightful)
Don't you already get enough spam from them [spamhaus.org]?!
Re:Great (Score:2)
cut *them* off from the Internet.
Chinese governmentt (Score:5, Insightful)
Then the government will simply block everything and allows access to "approved" website.
The worst problem is the Chinese government heavily brainwash its people with controlled media etc, so most Chinese people don't believe in any information from the outside world. I'm glad Hong Kong still has uncensored Internet access, for now.
Pretty easy to block/control (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm sure there are a manageable number of ISP class international internet leased lines in China.
Just stick transparent content filters on them and you'll be set for most stuff.
Sure https/SSL stuff can be problematic, but not many big sites provide http proxies because it costs more in CPU and complexity. It's already easy enough to find normal http proxies and shut them down. You might even be able to automate some of it.
As for peer to peer https proxies, what if the Chinese gov controls/subverts some of the "peer" machines? You're going to need some rather fancy tech - the simple method of identifying "trusted" proxies won't work coz that means the Chinese Gov can identify them and take action.
Ahead of the curve (Score:2, Interesting)
Actually, it's rather amazing how effective technologically enforced censorship is given the size of the tireless community dedicated to bypassing it.
*peek* (Score:3, Interesting)
Blocked sites? (Score:2)
It varies (Score:2)
It's really quite mysterious sometimes.
Here's a list ... and a lot more info ... (Score:1)
Freenet? (Score:2)
Re:Freenet? (Score:2)
Better system would be a network of p2p proxies. These proxies must work in chain so the original server is behind at least 5 proxies (with onion-like encryption it could be done securely). The only problem is routing requests to proxies...