Re: does etch have package that allow user bypass Internet censorship
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:55:12AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> "Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > On 06/03/2007 12:37 AM, Serena Cantor wrote:
> > > I'm in mainland China. The government block some Web sites and some Web pages.
> >
> > I believe the software is called either Tor or Torfree.
>
> I've often wondered how Tor could really be effective at thwarting
> censorship attempts by a government such as China's. Tor needs access
> to Tor servers, a list of which are publicly available, as they must
> be, or else one's local Tor client wouldn't be able to find them. It
> would therefore seem trivial for an interested government to simply
> block them at its firewall. I suppose a secret list of Tor entry
> points could be maintained, but that would hugely complicate Tor usage.
>
Worse, why wouldn't China clone the Tor server and redirect the Tor client
to it? The individual would smugly do what they want and the Gov't
would know exactly what they had done.
Doug.
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