[liberationtech] All Google products are now blocked in China
*Google disrupted prior to Tiananmen Anniversary; Mirror sites enable uncensored access to information https://en.greatfire.org/node/1030705* Google started to encrypt search by default in China in March and currently nearly all users will be redirected to the encrypted version automatically. But prior to the anniversary of Tiananmen incident, GFW(Great Firewall of China) began to severely disrupt Google search https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.google.com.hk by disrupting TCP connections to Google IPs. The block is indiscriminate as all Google services in all countries, encrypted or not, are now blocked in China. This blockage includes Google search, images, translate, Gmail and almost all other products. In addition, the block covers Google Hong Kong https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.google.com.hk (China’s version of Google), Google.com https://en.greatfire.org/www.google.com and all other country specific versions. We made unblockable mirror sites and Apps https://unblock.cn.com/ that can be accessed without any special tools or configuration. Currently, the mirror sites include FreeWeibo https://s3.amazonaws.com/freeweibo./index.html, our own project that collected and publish censored Sina Weibo and its unblockable Android app https://s3.amazonaws.com/freeweibo./index.html?u=android. GFW failed to block our iOS app, but Apple voluntarily took it down. China digital times( English https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdtimes./index.html?u=/Chinese https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdtimes./index.html) and Pao-Pao https://s3.amazonaws.com/pao-pao./index.html, all of which produce highly sensitive content but cannot be blocked (of course, all original websites are blocked) without causing serious economic damages. Microsoft, Amazon, and Github have to be blocked, creating serious problems for companies located in China. If our mirror sites are not blocked during this year’s June 4th, it's fair to say that our collateral freedom approach passes one of the most rigorous tests of censorship and we're on the right track to defeating GFW and make information accessible to all. Percy Alpha(PGP https://en.greatfire.org/contact#alt) GreatFire.org Team -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] All Google products are now blocked in China
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 06:07:02AM +0800, Percy Alpha wrote: *Google disrupted prior to Tiananmen Anniversary; Mirror sites enable uncensored access to information https://en.greatfire.org/node/1030705* Google started to encrypt search by default in China in March and currently nearly all users will be redirected to the encrypted version automatically. But prior to the anniversary of Tiananmen incident, GFW(Great Firewall of China) began to severely disrupt Google search https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.google.com.hk by disrupting TCP connections to Google IPs. The block is indiscriminate as all Google services in all countries, encrypted or not, are now blocked in China. This blockage includes Google search, images, translate, Gmail and almost all other products. In addition, the block covers Google Hong Kong https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.google.com.hk (China???s version of Google), Google.com https://en.greatfire.org/www.google.com and all other country specific versions. Hi Percy, Thanks for the update! Can you say how the block is implemented? It's mentioned that TCP connections to Google IP addresses are disrupted, which sounds like IP address blacklisting or DPI, but the blog post also mentions: They can access Google directly using https://203.208.41.144 or add the following content to hosts file. 203.208.41.144 www.google.com.hk 203.208.41.145 www.google.com.hk and that makes the block sound like DNS cache poisoning. Can you describe what you see when you make a request? Thanks again, Matt -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] All Google products are now blocked in China
I know GoAgent used to be a very popular proxy in China, and I believe it tunneled through Google Apps... Is it still popular (prior to this block I suppose) and does this mean it's now inaccessible? -tom On 1 June 2014 18:58, Matthew Finkel matthew.fin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 06:07:02AM +0800, Percy Alpha wrote: *Google disrupted prior to Tiananmen Anniversary; Mirror sites enable uncensored access to information https://en.greatfire.org/node/1030705* Google started to encrypt search by default in China in March and currently nearly all users will be redirected to the encrypted version automatically. But prior to the anniversary of Tiananmen incident, GFW(Great Firewall of China) began to severely disrupt Google search https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.google.com.hk by disrupting TCP connections to Google IPs. The block is indiscriminate as all Google services in all countries, encrypted or not, are now blocked in China. This blockage includes Google search, images, translate, Gmail and almost all other products. In addition, the block covers Google Hong Kong https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.google.com.hk (China???s version of Google), Google.com https://en.greatfire.org/www.google.com and all other country specific versions. Hi Percy, Thanks for the update! Can you say how the block is implemented? It's mentioned that TCP connections to Google IP addresses are disrupted, which sounds like IP address blacklisting or DPI, but the blog post also mentions: They can access Google directly using https://203.208.41.144 or add the following content to hosts file. 203.208.41.144 www.google.com.hk 203.208.41.145 www.google.com.hk and that makes the block sound like DNS cache poisoning. Can you describe what you see when you make a request? Thanks again, Matt -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] All Google products are now blocked in China
So, uhh, how do we implement these protocols without paying you anything? Travis On Jun 1, 2014 6:07 PM, Percy Alpha percyal...@gmail.com wrote: *Google disrupted prior to Tiananmen Anniversary; Mirror sites enable uncensored access to information https://en.greatfire.org/node/1030705* Google started to encrypt search by default in China in March and currently nearly all users will be redirected to the encrypted version automatically. But prior to the anniversary of Tiananmen incident, GFW(Great Firewall of China) began to severely disrupt Google search https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.google.com.hk by disrupting TCP connections to Google IPs. The block is indiscriminate as all Google services in all countries, encrypted or not, are now blocked in China. This blockage includes Google search, images, translate, Gmail and almost all other products. In addition, the block covers Google Hong Kong https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.google.com.hk (China’s version of Google), Google.com https://en.greatfire.org/www.google.com and all other country specific versions. We made unblockable mirror sites and Apps https://unblock.cn.com/ that can be accessed without any special tools or configuration. Currently, the mirror sites include FreeWeibo https://s3.amazonaws.com/freeweibo./index.html, our own project that collected and publish censored Sina Weibo and its unblockable Android app https://s3.amazonaws.com/freeweibo./index.html?u=android. GFW failed to block our iOS app, but Apple voluntarily took it down. China digital times( English https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdtimes./index.html?u=/Chinese https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdtimes./index.html) and Pao-Pao https://s3.amazonaws.com/pao-pao./index.html, all of which produce highly sensitive content but cannot be blocked (of course, all original websites are blocked) without causing serious economic damages. Microsoft, Amazon, and Github have to be blocked, creating serious problems for companies located in China. If our mirror sites are not blocked during this year’s June 4th, it's fair to say that our collateral freedom approach passes one of the most rigorous tests of censorship and we're on the right track to defeating GFW and make information accessible to all. Percy Alpha(PGP https://en.greatfire.org/contact#alt) GreatFire.org Team -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] All Google products are now blocked in China
@Matt, It's implemented on blocking TCP on certain IP. The list of IP I gave is not blocked but the default IP addresses returned by DNS are blocked. @Tom, GoAgent is still very popular and the author has updated the software to make GoAgent still usable under the current circumstances. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
