Free Tools To Evade China's Web Censorship 140
narramissic writes "The Global Internet Freedom Consortium (GIFC) offers a set of free tools that can be used to circumvent Chinese Internet censorship. The group claims approximately 1 million people in China use its tools to access the Internet. And, says Tao Wang, director of operations for GIFC, 'it's a very good time to remind Western reporters that there are such tools.'"
Re:Like they won't just block the site? (Score:4, Informative)
She said the same thing. Thanks! Shame I cant get there!
(currently trying to send her the info over proxy)
western reporters (Score:5, Informative)
I doubt many western reports will have problems. If you work for a company of any size, the company has a VPN. You log into the company VPN. ( I promise you China does not block them. I live here. ) Once you are logged into your VPN, you surf where ever you want. Plus, it is encrypted - so no spying.
One problem that is not commonly discussed is what I call the "great American firewall". For better or worse, a lot of western sites block all requests from China. It is really annoying if you want to make a few online purchases and you aren't trying to hack their site. I should start to compile a list of specific examples.
Chinese Population (Score:3, Informative)
There are 1,313,973,713 people in the PRC.
20.8% (male 145,461,833; female 128,445,739) are 14 years old or younger.
71.4% (male 482,439,115; female 455,960,489) are between 15 and 64 years old.
7.7% (male 48,562,635; female 53,103,902) are over 65 years old.
The population growth rate for 2006 is 0.59%.
The PRC officially recognizes 56 distinct ethnic groups, the largest of which are the Han Chinese, who constitute about 91.9% of the total population.
Large ethnic minorities include the Zhuang (16 million), Manchu (10 million), Hui (9 million), Miao (8 million), Uyghur (7 million), Yi (7 million), Tujia (5.75 million), Mongols (5 million), Tibetans (5 million), Buyei (3 million), and Koreans (2 million).
In the past decade, China's cities expanded at an average rate of 10% annually. The country's urbanization rate increased from 17.4% to 41.8% between 1978 and 2005, a scale unprecedented in human history. 80 to 120 million migrant workers work part-time in the major cities and return home to the countryside periodically with their earnings. Today, the People's Republic of China has dozens of major cities with one million or more long-term residents, including the three global cities of Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.
possible malware in download (Score:5, Informative)
My antivirus software said the "GIFC Anti-Censorship Tools Bundle" download from the Global Internet Freedom Consortium contained "probably a variant of Win32/Delf trojan."
I am not sure if this is a false positive alarm or a bona-fide infection, but you may want to exercise some caution before installing the software on your computer.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
Has anyone used JAP? (Score:2, Informative)
JAP [tu-dresden.de]
Re:Here we go again... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Carrier pigeons to be shot (Score:3, Informative)
I know you were joking but in the Cultural Revolution of Communist China there was the Great Sparrow Campaign [wikipedia.org]
Re:Like they won't just block the site? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:possible malware in download (Score:3, Informative)
I just heard back from the anti-virus vendor. They confirmed it was a false positive and fixed it in the next signature update.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky