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Science & Technology
Barbarian breaches the Great Firewall of China
2007-01-04
"Wretchard" at Belmont Club

Popular Science describes how Sebastian Wolfgarten attempted to get around the Great Firewall of China. "Wolfgarten simply bought a server at a Chinese ISP by phone. Once the server was set up, he could log into it from Germany. And all the data that went through the server would be subject to the same digital censorship that Chinese citizens experience every day." Then Wolfgarten observed how the firewall worked and then he simply went around and over it. . . .

(Earlier Rantburg article with more tech-geek details here.)
Posted by:Mike

#2  The cable cut in Taiwan has done a lot more than the Great Firewall has ever done.

You can get around the Great Firewall with a simple unencrypted proxy. For those of you who need to read about the F-G, use Tor.
Posted by: gromky   2007-01-04 15:08  

#1  It can be circumvented. But access speeds are like dialing up using a 2400 baud modem. That's right - a 2.4 kbps modem, while using a broadband connection. Thus, even though you can circumvent the firewall, it's way too slow for routine use. For instance, how would you like to wait five minutes for a Taiwanese news website to display, and five minutes for each story to come up?

Chinese web surfers who can read English can read whatever they want without having to deal with the firewall, but there are probably more American web surfers who can function in Chinese than there are Chinese web surfers who can function in English. And the Chinese web surfers who can function in English seem to spend all their time in forums writing about all the good things that come to mind when they think about the Communist Party. The sad reality is that inside every Chinese isn't an American struggling to get out.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2007-01-04 13:16  

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