Kevin Smith wrote: > I have never heard that the Tor website http://tor.eff.org/ has been > blocked in China, nor any URLs under that website. It is currently not > blocked by my ISP in Beijing, nor was it blocked by my ISP in Shandong > province when I lived there. > > I was, however, referring to the Tor service itself, not the website, > though I did not make that clear. > > The psiphon website, on the other hand, http://psiphon.civisec.org/ > has been blocked, at least by my ISP in Beijing, but the psiphon > service has not been
[...] > I think it is very interesting in and of itself that the main Tor > website http://tor.eff.org/ has not been blocked. Perhaps it's the > Great Firewall's way of saying, "We are knowingly allowing this > backdoor." > It's funny. Looking at the codebase for both, it would almost seem this should be the other way around. I wonder if it's just an oversight that tor.eff.org hasn't been blocked in your case? How does the blocking with your ISP work? Do you get a generic reject page telling you the service is blocked? Do you get TCP resets? Regards, Jacob Appelbaum
