Comments on: Ignoring the “Great Firewall of China” http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/ Security Research, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:13:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Richard Clayton http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-29437 Richard Clayton Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:38:45 +0000 http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-29437 @nathan I don't think that advocating illegal activity (which will additionally cause all sorts of collateral damage) is a particularly sensible suggestion. @nathan

I don’t think that advocating illegal activity (which will additionally cause all sorts of collateral damage) is a particularly sensible suggestion.

]]> By: Nathan Zadoks http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-29436 Nathan Zadoks Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:21:35 +0000 http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-29436 What about launching a massive DDoS on all the systems that do China's content filtering? What about launching a massive DDoS on all the systems that do China’s content filtering?

]]> By: Healing the Body http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-29150 Healing the Body Tue, 13 May 2008 21:15:14 +0000 http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-29150 Don't they know, the more they try to suppress the freedom of the people, the more they will inspire them. They could crush the followers of any creed by doing what Western Society has done - turn it into a mindless and spiritless commercial Festival. Let any system follow its own devices and it will rapidly become extinct, but criticize and punish it, and it will flourish like the forest. Don’t they know, the more they try to suppress the freedom of the people, the more they will inspire them. They could crush the followers of any creed by doing what Western Society has done - turn it into a mindless and spiritless commercial Festival. Let any system follow its own devices and it will rapidly become extinct, but criticize and punish it, and it will flourish like the forest.

]]> By: Martel http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-24369 Martel Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:22:38 +0000 http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-24369 My web site was swamped with Chinese traffic downloading my software and providing pirate keys to unlock it. The Chinese traffic consisted almost entirely of thieves. So I'd like to block it. Then came the idea that I could let the GFC do the blocking for me! Then I read your articles and realized something else. If we want to defeat the GFC we could all add lots of banned key words to our web sites. If most of the web sites in the free world had these blocked words, then the GFC would block everything -- and the Chinese web users would demand a loosening. But I don't know which Chinese would benefit the most, the average citizens or the thieves. My web site was swamped with Chinese traffic downloading my software and providing pirate keys to unlock it. The Chinese traffic consisted almost entirely of thieves. So I’d like to block it. Then came the idea that I could let the GFC do the blocking for me!

Then I read your articles and realized something else. If we want to defeat the GFC we could all add lots of banned key words to our web sites. If most of the web sites in the free world had these blocked words, then the GFC would block everything — and the Chinese web users would demand a loosening.

But I don’t know which Chinese would benefit the most, the average citizens or the thieves.

]]> By: John http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-24366 John Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:59:02 +0000 http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-24366 Richard, as for me i think it is better to use the service of the trusted people who provide such a service rather than using proxies which are scanned or to use tor which can be monitored by anyone? Richard, as for me i think it is better to use the service of the trusted people who provide such a service rather than using proxies which are scanned or to use tor which can be monitored by anyone?

]]> By: Rob http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-23980 Rob Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:20:33 +0000 http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-23980 @ Richard Kudos for providing an analysis, rather than simply deleting the advert. Much more useful :-) @ Richard
Kudos for providing an analysis, rather than simply deleting the advert. Much more useful :-)

]]> By: Richard Clayton http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-23971 Richard Clayton Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:10:17 +0000 http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-23971 The previous comment is an advert ... the text is pretty much the same as you will find on the smarthide.com web website. There's not a lot of detail there, but from the looks of it this is a pretty standard third party proxy -- so the third party (who seem to be based in Salem Oregon) will be aware of all your activities -- as will anyone in that jurisdiction who can serve them with paperwork to inspect their logs. This may be fine for you, but to describe it as a "simpler and more effective method" is really rather too simple and may not be effective for you. Oh -- and there's dozens of other third party proxies if you think that's a solution. Don't go with the first one you see! especially if you look at their website and it takes you 10 minutes to work out what company is running it, where they are based, and even what nationality they are! The previous comment is an advert … the text is pretty much the same as you will find on the smarthide.com web website. There’s not a lot of detail there, but from the looks of it this is a pretty standard third party proxy — so the third party (who seem to be based in Salem Oregon) will be aware of all your activities — as will anyone in that jurisdiction who can serve them with paperwork to inspect their logs. This may be fine for you, but to describe it as a “simpler and more effective method” is really rather too simple and may not be effective for you.

Oh — and there’s dozens of other third party proxies if you think that’s a solution. Don’t go with the first one you see! especially if you look at their website and it takes you 10 minutes to work out what company is running it, where they are based, and even what nationality they are!

]]> By: Hide IP http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-23969 Hide IP Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:49:15 +0000 http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-23969 Of course, a much simpler and more effective method would be to install SmartHide. Is a perfect solution for the biggest online problem - Complete Anonymity. This unique program will keep your IP address (and your identity) hidden; secure all the protocols on your PC (E-mail, Web-browsing, Instant Messaging, P2P, etc); provide full encryption of your traffic while working in Internet, and a lot more. <a href="http://www.smarthide.com" rel="nofollow">Anonymous surfing with Smart Hide</a> Of course, a much simpler and more effective method would be to install SmartHide. Is a perfect solution for the biggest online problem - Complete Anonymity. This unique program will keep your IP address (and your identity) hidden; secure all the protocols on your PC (E-mail, Web-browsing, Instant Messaging, P2P, etc); provide full encryption of your traffic while working in Internet, and a lot more.

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]]> By: www.dongtaiwang.com http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-21893 www.dongtaiwang.com Tue, 08 May 2007 07:31:16 +0000 http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-21893 this site is a good solution to the gfw. try this . or falundafa .etc this site is a good solution to the gfw.

try this .

or falundafa .etc

]]> By: chine_meigui http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-21412 chine_meigui Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:21:17 +0000 http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/#comment-21412 I am a foreigner living in China for 5 years now and really got fedup 'coz we were blocked for more than 2 weeks even from our own blogs...so I tried your method and VOILA it works --for all my block websites (but the format is a little screwy) but who care about that! TX I am a foreigner living in China for 5 years now and really got fedup ‘coz we were blocked for more than 2 weeks even from our own blogs…so I tried your method and VOILA it works –for all my block websites (but the format is a little screwy) but who care about that! TX

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