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Breaking down the Great Firewall of China

By Glen Taylor - August 8, 2008

China's internet access has been plagued with stories of restricted browsing, missing articles and even bloggers who can't publish to their personal sites.

The Freedom Stick gets around this problem. This €20 ($30) USB dongle is pre-loaded with software which will secure the communications of any computer it is slotted into. Made available by Germany's Chaos Computer Club, the stick uses the TOR (The Onion Router) network to cloak your connections, routing traffic around the world through anonymous computers, thus avoiding detection.

The name is a little antagonistic but that's the point, you can actually achieve the same hack with a software solution. Still how bad can getting detained by Chinese customs over issues of censorship really be.

via wired

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"A stunningly frank 21-point plan from the propaganda bureau was issued to editors and journalists and orders them to ignore hot international topics and any issues that may reflect negatively on the Olympic Games."

http://www.theage.com.au/news/off-the-field/censors-make-news/2008/08/14/1218307066384.html

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I'm curious how long it will work for, either way I'd be sitting near an exit before I tried it out.

@Gerard: you might better understand the "people around here" if you look up the word "irony"
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"Still how bad can getting detained by Chinese customs over issues of censorship really be."

I am beginning to think that people around here have their heads in the proverbial...
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Rumors?!
Antagonistic?! As in being antagonistic is bad?

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