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 <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> 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 - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > > >Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > > >ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Support mailing list > > >Support at freenetproject.org > > >http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > > >Unsubscribe at > > >http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > > >Or mailto:support-request at freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe > > > > - -- > > - -------------------------------- > > 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 at freenetproject.org > > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > > Unsubscribe at > > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > > Or mailto:support-request at freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe > > > > -- > Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > 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 at freenetproject.org > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:support-request at freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe > > -- <HTML> <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=0&t=57";><img border="0" alt="Get Firefox!" title="Get Firefox!" src="http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/Buttons/180x60/blank.gif"/></a>
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