China Government
These gimps have blocked Facebook, Blogspot, Twitter, Youtube, bit.ly, Google Documents now that Google.cn has upped sticks to Hong Kong, allmusic.com, and thepiratebay.org. It has blocked websites about China such as Danwei.org and anything that doesn't present a rosy picture of the Middle Kingdom. Any pages which mentin Tiananmen 1989 are blocked, as are pages with footage of the Tibet unrest in 2008 and info on the Dalai Lama.

But I'm currently in Beijing and can access all of these websites thanks to my VPN. Fuck you, Great Firewall! Fuck you, Hu Jintao!
(McChinaman banned, Sun 20 Jun 2010, 15:48, 9 replies)

*breaks in*
*breaks legs*
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Sun 20 Jun 2010, 20:17, closed)

We managed to track your IP via this post.
Report to party headquarters immediately for re-education.
( Chum Gnomesky Nom Chompsky, Mon 21 Jun 2010, 6:31, closed)

chinese wikipedia
has an extensive, if somewhat inaccurate, entry on tiananmen square ... and i was under the impression that wasn't blocked at the moment. anyway, you live there, you should know the "firewall" varies across the country depending on who they want to control the most, in some places it's downright lax and in others you're lucky to get hotmail.

but agreed, anything you can do to stick it to them and their ridiculous clone-like bespectactled square-faced "leaders" is a victory. have you managed to get revenge at the post office for anything? i fucking hated the post office.
(zenmeban thinks the weather could be better, Mon 21 Jun 2010, 9:15, closed)

Not to mention
Fuck their vice-premier's security detail.

Assholes attacked one of our MPs (in NZ) on our soil and our sycophant of a PM apologized to them for the inconvenience of having to beat him to the ground for peacefully protesting.
(Scritty Bakerman., Mon 21 Jun 2010, 14:32, closed)

Deep packet inspection.
most cheap routers and PCs are being built in CHinaland now, with back doors.

They know, but they're letting you do it so they can spy on you. The Chinese are the new Jew/Mason/Illuminati.

BTW, your mobile phone is listening to you.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Mon 21 Jun 2010, 17:08, closed)

FREE THE /TALK ONE!
RELEASE DING NOW!
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Mon 21 Jun 2010, 21:42, closed)

China and firewalls
I've always wondered this - just how effective is this firewall, against the collective will of a billion chinese perverts wanting to get at porn?

Surely anonymisers, proxy servers and all that stuff I don't really understand, must get a fair number of clued up people around it.

Also, I don't know about the Chinese Government, but I imagine a UK nationwide firewall would be as effective as those age checks at online movie trailers where you just drop down '1' 'Jan' '1901' and carry on.
(Karmageddon, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 12:32, closed)

If you believe the internets
China has the freakiest firewall invented, and also the a massive army of hackers all working for the government.
I have personally seen hacks coming from Chinese IPs. Although, that doesn't mean that the hacks originate in China.
Also had clients having issues receiving email in China and connecting to their VPN from within China.
The problem with most proxy servers and anonymisers is that people need to know they exist to use them, and if people know they exist, then the Chinese government will too. Also, they can easily tell if all your traffic happens to be to a single IP or range of IPs setting off more warning lights.
Although, the firewall is probably penetrable, the act of penetrating is hard enough to make it clear who is penetrating it. Consider if you only sent encrypted emails, since so few people do, it would mark your emails as unusual thereby attracting attention.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:35, closed)

try http://www.hidemyass.com/ might work

( skullbuggery uh huh! kissed a cow!, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 12:26, closed)