Tunneling Under the Great Firewall? 403
An anonymous reader writes "I am traveling to China in the near future, and needless to say as a Slashdot reader I am going to require access to the Internet. The whole, unadulterated, unfiltered Internet. Also needless to say, I am very leery of the government there (my lack of a nickname on this submission being testament to that). I will only be there for a few weeks, and will not be using the computer for much of that time, so I don't want to shell out a lot of money to a VPN service. However I also don't want to be hindered by extremely slow speeds such as those provided by the Tor network. I have experience implementing Web servers and work fairly often with Linux; however, many of my friends who also face the same dilemma don't. What would be the most cost-effective (free is best) method for me to subvert the Great Firewall during my travels while maintaining sufficient anonymity and enjoying sufficient speed?"
Anonymous? (Score:5, Funny)
Just change your online name to "FreeTibet". They'll never notice.
Re:Really? (Score:3, Funny)
My political opinions are state secrets that I communicate over twitter, you insensitive clod!
China asks Slashdot how to catch hungry minds (Score:4, Funny)
So when China asks slashdot how best to catch people circumventing their firewall, how would they do it? They might pretend to be a western touron visiting their fair nation and asking some innocent questions about firewall circumvention. If any of these methods are effective, they are likely to cease being effective now that they are widely published. Either way, the anonymity of the poster prevents direct help and indicates perhaps a clever approach to hardening the firewall.
Re:Tor, maybe? (Score:5, Funny)
As long as we are going with "things the original author specifically discounted in his post", I think he should purchase VPN service...
Going on a pron hunt. (Score:1, Funny)
I'm going on a porn hunt
I'm not a afraid.
I got some good business partners.
By my side.
Oh. Oh.
What do I see.
Oh look! It's a Chinese Firewall.
Can't go over it.
Can't go under it.
Can't go around it.
Got to go through it.
(First thing I thought of)
Are you serious? (Score:1, Funny)
>> Also needless to say, I am very leery of the government there (my lack of a nickname on this submission being testament to that).
You're just an overly paranoid neckbeard. Don't use the same Slashdot nickname twice and make sure all your equipment, plus your brain, is wrapped in tin foil to avoid atheist Chinese mind reading.
Re:Tor, maybe? (Score:3, Funny)
Or more specifically, he should shell out a lot of money for one.
Re:Happens exactly the same with the good ole' USA (Score:2, Funny)
Cool! Do you happen to have another anecdote to add to the grand pile of once in the last, what, 9 years?
Anything? Bueller?
Re:Fear (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Pick any... (Score:3, Funny)
Given that you're losing out on "secure", you might want to think twice about that. I hear the viruses you can get are quite a pain to deal with.
Re:Anonymous? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Fear (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Fear (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Fear (Score:3, Funny)
"Shell out a lot of money for a VPN service..." $9.95US for 1 month is a Lot of money?
In China it is. Have you seen that exchange rate? Damn...