Breaking The Great Firewall Of China

What Is The Great Firewall of China ?

• Wikipedia
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_mainland_China
  Wikipedia users have compiled an excellent page discussing The Great Firewall of China.

   

• Race To The Bottom
  http://www.hrw.org/reports/2006/china0806/index.htm
  This article by Human Rights Watch is an extensive discussion of censorship in China on the internet.

   

• 2001 CPJ Article
  http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2001/China_jan01/China_jan01.html
  An article from the Committee to Protect Journalists is titled 'The Great Firewall', and has
  some discussion of the politics of The Great Firewall of China.

   

• 2006 Business Week Article
  http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2006/tc20060112_434051.htm
  Business Week on The Great Firewall of China

   

• 2004 Guardian Article
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1349348,00.html#article_continue
  Another view I found worth reading.

   

• Internet Censorship In The People's Republic Of China
  http://www.answers.com/topic/internet-censorship-in-the-people-s-republic-of-china
  A lot of this Answers.com entry is a re-hash of the Wikipedia article, but it has a bit more
  information, including a link to a list of filtered words.

   

• Ignoring The Great Firewall Of China
  http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/06/27/ignoring-the-great-firewall-of-china/
  A technical discussion by Cambridge University Professor Richard Clayton

   

How To Break The Great Firewall of China

• PeaceFire.org
  http://www.peacefire.org/
  PeaceFire is an organization dedicated to open access for young people. They distribute
  software and run one of the most extensive proxy networks I've found. It's easy to use.

   

• Psiphon
  http://psiphon.civisec.org/
  Psiphon is a proxy tool designed by the University of Toronto to be used within a trusted
  community of users. It's easy to use.

   

• TOR - The Onion Router
  http://tor.eff.org/
  The Onion Router anonymizes and encrypts all internet services, not just web surfing. It's one
  of the more solid solutions available to use, but more difficult to implement.

   

• FreeNet - The Free Network Project
  http://freenetproject.org/
  FreeNet is very anonymous, but difficult to use.

   

• UltraReach
  http://www.ultrareach.com/company/index.htm
  UltraReach is a company reportedly started by practitioners of a religion frowned upon
  by the Government of China. The software uses a portal, http://www.ultrareach.net/, which
  has a good bit of promotion for this same group.

   

• Other Web Proxy Sites:
  • The CloakEncrypted. Free and Paid services, Good !
  • ProxyWebEncrypted. Good !
  • GuardsterFree and Paid Proxy Services. No encryption on free service.
  • WebWarperAds, no encryption.
  • AnonymouseSince 1997. No encryption.
  • Unipeak Lots of advertising, but it works. No encryption.