The "Great Firewall" of China

Supercell

When I'm in China many websites that I use are blocked such as Facebook and Youtube for example.

I was thinking that maybe a work around would be to add the IPs into my hosts file of my favourite sites for my next trip there.

Is that likely to work, anyone have any other simple workarounds?
Another thought I had would be to install a private proxy on my Irish machine for use over there but I don't know how to set that up.

Any advice?

JimmyCrackCorn

You can live without facebook and so on so forth. Iv been there. Its not a country to mess about in in general.

Some analysis iv seen on it means that any of your above suggestions wont work.

Im not going to give you suggestions as well iv been there and as i said they don't mess about.

Gavin

You could run an openssh server on your computer at home, then ssh tunnel into it from wherever and use SOCKS proxy forwarding.

http://bityard.blogspot.com/2009/01/make-openssh-socks-proxy.html

For details on how the chinese firewall works, have a look at
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/ignoring.pdf

Tea_Bag

Gavin wrote: »

For details on how the chinese firewall works, have a look at
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/ignoring.pdf

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

just WOW


ive known about the firewall obviously, but omg WOW.


*looks around* thats disgusting

Supercell

JimmyCrackCorn wrote: »

You can live without facebook and so on so forth. Iv been there. Its not a country to mess about in in general.

Some analysis iv seen on it means that any of your above suggestions wont work.

Im not going to give you suggestions as well iv been there and as i said they don't mess about.

Its fine, they don't care much about what the laowai (foreigners) access as long as its nothing obviously anti Chinese. I read that during the Olympics they instructed hotels hosting a lot of foreigners to open up popular western sites such as Facebook and Youtube so as to leave a good impression. If I was opening stuff about Tiananmen Square then it might be a problem but I've no inclination to do that, I'm not that naive!

Gavin wrote: »

You could run an openssh server on your computer at home, then ssh tunnel into it from wherever and use SOCKS proxy forwarding.

http://bityard.blogspot.com/2009/01/make-openssh-socks-proxy.html

For details on how the chinese firewall works, have a look at
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/ignoring.pdf

Thanks very much Gavin, I'll read up on that.

Dude111

JimmyCrackCorn wrote:

Im not going to give you suggestions as well iv been there and as i said they don't mess about.

No and they might try to take someone offline for bypassing thier restrictions....

Facebook sucks anyway,who really needs access to that?

taytothief

:rolleyes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort

http://www.cse.umich.edu/~jhalderm/pub/gd/

http://opennet.net/chinas-green-dam-the-implications-government-control-encroaching-home-pc