Better idea: Don’t travel to China at all.

Posted at 7:55 pm on Aug 3rd, 2008 by Carlyle

Creating a dynamic SSH tunnel through a remote host would be the ideal.

ssh -D6969 user@host
Configure your web browser to SOCKS proxy 127.0.0.1:6969

Surf the web securely.

Posted at 11:04 pm on Aug 3rd, 2008 by nathan

Now, I would be really careful about that. I think a relatively simple IDS could notify the “government”

Posted at 5:05 am on Aug 4th, 2008 by Demo

You can use witopia too. You have to pay around 30 USD every year, but it’s the fastest solution that I have found (although internet here is d*mn slow)

http://www.witopia.net/

Don’t worry about the Chinese goverment. Although it’s not legal to use this kind of services in the country, if you are a ‘laowai’ (foreigner) they will do nothing to you. If you are Chinese… they can do anything.

Posted at 8:52 am on Aug 4th, 2008 by marc

I would think the best solution for journalists would be satellite communications, and for REALLY sensitive stuff, material should be encyphered AND obscured with some measure of steganography… ie, encrypt your photos of riots, but also burn them to a CD made to LOOK like a chinese pop album. Sned through the mail to a nearby country with more liberal views on the internet. (don’t look at me for suggestions there, i did all the tech work. YOU figure out which country has better internet access. South korea maybe?)

Posted at 9:06 am on Aug 4th, 2008 by evillawngnome

I would say VPN are a good idea for sensetive material as there not to easy to break. As for PHP proxy pages, there only good if there on your own server.

To many people in schools use proxies, I know I was the main user at my local college but I never accessed anything that required a password. To many people go on myspace etc. It’s know wonder social networking sites are full of spam.

Posted at 12:22 pm on Aug 4th, 2008 by #YLS#

I recommend cgiproxy over phpproxy any day. May take a little more effort, but when used with SSL, you can ensure https connections.

The best method would be proxying over ssh. Many ISPs block incoming 22. Ports 8080 and 8181 are rarely blocked by businesses / isps.

Posted at 2:35 pm on Aug 4th, 2008 by jared

as well a useful small messenger application based on GAIM called Scatterchat (by cDc and Hactivismo) could be handy for this cause, I worked on porting the application to be installed on a thumbdrive you can grab it by following this link

http://www.flyninja.net/?page_id=340

Posted at 8:22 pm on Aug 4th, 2008 by circuitbomb

Vincent Laforet is another photographer in Beijing. He has reported that each VPN solution works once before it is disabled.

http://vincentlaforet.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/great-firewall-of-china-and-whac-a-mole/

Posted at 3:14 am on Aug 12th, 2008 by nikonius

how do u hack through school firewall

Posted at 10:52 am on Jan 16th, 2009 by anonymous

China firewall is lame – use Freedur.com to bypass it. You can bypass China Great Firewall and access youtube, facebook, blogger and all other sites which are blocked.

Posted at 3:01 pm on May 29th, 2009 by Jeff

FREE TIBET! REMEMBER TIANANMEN 89!

China is just a damn internet hater. If they continue to block ALL popular internet sites in the world they must completely disconnect themselves from the World Wide Web. Period.

Posted at 12:01 am on Jun 11th, 2009 by marco

I have unfiltered access to any site from China using Skydur.com. This little proxy is so fast and simple to use. They offer 10% discount if you signup for the whole year. Try it, you’ll like it – http://www.Skydur.com. It’s much better than Witopia.

Posted at 3:58 am on Nov 7th, 2009 by Queen