How to climb over Chinese wall of censorship

Posted by brittaw on Aug 22, 2008 9:28 PM EDT
Linux Magazine; By Markus Feilner
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IOC President, Jacques Rogge, was recently forced to back-pedal under a barrage of criticism when it became clear that assurances that the press corps would have "unrestricted" Internet access were no more than piecrust promises. Nevertheless, the technology behind the "Golden Shield Project", which is apparently a means of protecting the Chinese from criminal content and has earned the nickname "Great Firewall of China", is relatively simple. Journalists in the Olympic village, as well as western corporations and even private individuals have a range of tools at their disposal to ensure their Internet access is both full and unmonitored. However, most of these are based on anonymizing services, such as gateways, proxies or web services, that massage the content and smuggle it in under the censor's nose.

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