Comments on: Anonymouse proxy now blocked in PRC

By: jumper

jumper — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:18:54 +0000

@Evader – TOR isn’t tied to a specific port. The easiest way to limit access to it might be to block the TOR directory servers.

By: Evader

Evader — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:59:35 +0000

@ Jumper it’s so easy, they find the port that TOR used and they block all the activity through this port. Easy uh?

By: jumper

jumper — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:03:33 +0000

There are better proxy systems too. As far as I know, TOR isn’t presently blocked and it would be very easy to block it. Who knows how and why?

I would guess that a lot of the censorship decisions are based on events that occur involving the sites that end up getting censored. Some subversive citizen was probably using Anonymouse to bypass the filters and got caught by some other means.

By: Michi

Michi — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:54:52 +0000

But there’s loads of proxy on the internet. How to block it all?

By: The Dark Visitor » Bypassing the Great Firewall of China - iaminchina.com

The Dark Visitor » Bypassing the Great Firewall of China - iaminchina.com — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:37:31 +0000

[...] reasonably well (though frequently slow) and there are other anonymizer services out there such as Anonymouse and Ultrasurf. James Fallows has Ultrasurf. James Fallows has blogged about using commercial [...]

By: Eastwood

Eastwood — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:03:15 +0000

haha, thanks!

By: jumper

jumper — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:27:43 +0000

VPN is one of the most common ways that expats get around the GFW. Everything that I have read indicates that VPN should work fine. Some expats even buy commercial anonymizing VPN services for use in the PRC.

Have fun on your trip.

Oh yeah, don’t be too CNN.

By: Eastwood

Eastwood — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:24:47 +0000

Reading from Wikipedia, ironically, the TOR website isn’t even blocked in China. I’ll be in Beijing over the summer (in time for the Olympics) and it’ll be a big of a challenge to blog since it has been blocked in China. I’m thinking of using my university’s VPN to get access. That shouldn’t be a problem, right?