Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] web proxies for Chinese and other oppressed groups

[Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

There are a lot of fairly successful efforts to circumvent the "Great 
Firewall of China".  Some of them are anonymous proxies, but I saw the 
other day a bootable CD that uses Linux, Tor (http://tor.eff.org/), 
Firefox, and some trickery to provide fairly secure and difficult to 
track/prevent browsing.  I think it's interesting how much you see about 
this in the news because if someone in China really wants to go online 
and say, find the history of the Tiananmen Square incident, I've no 
doubt that they'd be able to do so given a little effort.

-N

Mike Miller wrote:

> We've been hearing about the Chinese government blocking their people 
> from accessing many web sites.  So Google caved and made a special 
> Google.cn with restricted capabilities to satisfy the Chinese 
> government.  This leads me to wonder if it would not be possible for 
> Chinese people to have secure connections to specially-designed web 
> sites that allow them to connect from there to any other web site.  To 
> make this work, there would have to be a lot of these sites and they 
> would have to move around the web.  Is it possible to make such a 
> thing work?  If it worked well enough, it wouldn't have to work for 
> long because it would probably put an end to the Chinese filtering 
> scheme fairly quickly.  Why would they waste time fighting a losing 
> battle?
>
> Mike
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