Meh...depends where you're at. It's not one giant firewall....it's a regional thing. Beijing must just have high security. Seems odd that they'd block out SSH....but I suppose SSH is a good way to hide what you're doing.
On 9/1/06, Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:12:53PM -0500, GeckoX wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I was in China last year. I was able to create a VPN connection in the US with no problem. Most of the web didn't work, even SSL. SSH was completely blocked as well, which is why I was surprised that I could connect via VPN with no problems. This was in Beijing. I'm surprised SSL doesn't work - don't they _want_ to do business with the West? > > :brian > > ++ 31/08/06 15:31 +0100 - Matthew Toseland: > >On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:01:45PM +0400, Roman V. Isaev wrote: > >> On 08/31, Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> > > > Have you thought about that ignoring reset packets thing that was > >> > > > shown to make it possible to bypass The Great Firewall? I mean, I > >> > > > don't know too much about it, or if it'd be possible for > >> > > > freenet....but it might be worth looking in to. > >> > > That would involve platform-specific code, there's no way to do that in > >> > > java. > >> > It's unnecessary anyway because it only applies to TCP. It does however > >> > tell us something very interesting and useful: The firewall is stateless !! > >> > They pick up forbidden keywords on a packet and then send a reset > >> > packet, they don't even delete later packets on the same connection > >> > because *they don't track connections at all* ! > >> > >> But they will do that, sooner or later. It's just a matter of time. Another > >> chunk of money for Cisco I guess... > > > >The interesting thing is you can connect to IRC and discuss forbidden > >keywords... Also that study is curious because I heard they block the > >whole page, rather than just interrupt it in the middle... > >-- > >Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > >ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Support mailing list > >Support@freenetproject.org > >http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > >Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > >Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - -- > - -------------------------------- > Freedom is slavery. > Ignorance is strength. > War is peace. > -- George Orwell > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFE9yabSMrcfZpjDKERAhAaAKCsTD/S/I1eM/3VEd740nYZPhj6KgCgo/Mo > JZ+MtJuu0elkY8pTZLtdMSM= > =G9+A > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > Support@freenetproject.org > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE+FNAOHFIJVywduQRAkF9AJ4xeRLBj2Keu9oni0oe7zCl9VzjVgCfWpe0 aPwdgysdq2Maes3Xc4Rm+bE= =UKNu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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