First. It is completely impossible for Chinese government to setup censorship system out of its territory, especially in a democratic country. If they were to do this, it would not only be against the law of country in which their censor system located, but also seriously destroy their reputation.
Second. Even if such nodes exist, only they act as exit node can the censor system works. Even in this situation, they still cannot trace back the original user who breaks the censor rule since tor has so many relays. -----邮件原件----- 发件人: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 代 表 F. Fox 发送时间: 2008年1月31日 5:52 收件人: [email protected] 主题: Hypothetical: Totalitarian regimes & virtual servers abroad? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I've been thinking about the recent threads involving our recent contributor from China, and the idea of excluding nodes by country - in this case, excluding Chinese nodes, for the purposes of circumventing the Great Firewall. However, such an approach relies on the ability to tie an IP address to geography. This led me to something that while simple, could break this entire approach: What if the Chinese government were to open virtual server accounts in other countries? Assuming they had massive connectivity (which some locations do - there's such a place near me, which hosts among other things, Google), malicious Tor nodes could be run on them. Since excluding by geography would be useless, they'd only need to sit back and wait. Any thoughts? - -- F. Fox: A+, Network+, Security+ Owner of Tor node "kitsune" http://fenrisfox.livejournal.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBR6DxcOj8TXmm2ggwAQi/QxAAuUhgsUcV44HyhpRNfJF1kbM6iFVPHmmd FtWYqnPCDoc7qMnA/BFXYxjDply1WbWIanVoMDY8Cg7pw5F7prktGq8H4aYeHxc7 meoNEef35PP6qzLpe59uv25C6b6I4S8V1BBRVlZsVbElMGUMRClFbWndWNjStLue TnwSZq2sVu0wB6iVtB4UhTkqvAFAcXSwYxP1+kKHCd/PLE3Hpwi5jEFmtw+2H+Vf 19HmUvbNqKnuBHHeX178EBqW78+bVst1phm4lI745YViWTb7I/4DgTS0+WqAo0x/ e1g9vsHJQoTiEWg/+8sprBtLhIR2HE+PobTce+3nEvjb7SfdBUVwspG1hemqDDpE NLNWAsAzMFYnAdmEMfEEHCVf7BoFXVqkqs5KMKxsWE0X4+6QbXLxR+PS9b4Ev/1Q PsE8HVO43jxS0/alMGUFWqwTdbFn/qNqK1GKGMEYecFukZSNwViFeA5ufkSPdVHS N/EK0ILedcA8XYRRBttJRlPzYGSI0EuD3XBuc4sK0QtzB/IYCh71RyJn1KDdk8Um HUkw0aLS5+b/Ok9ULxWsWQpjsjRdeWp2ZPsym/5UQcWSoE+rqEDQE4OKaSeDVFbx fWLYZ4OQUwDX/OI0pSsEW2dVDc3Zr51vF3VapC+GuM/IID2WOEwbB9nzcVIlcGIg 2FXBdN/b9H0= =Y74V -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
