A little down recently about my regular VPN's lackluster speed, I started testing out a new service called ibVPN (Invisible Browsing VPN) and am decently happy with the results/ease of use.
The service is strictly PPTP and not SSL, which I suppose is both a pro and a con. From my experience PPTP is faster and easier to setup as services go, but is easier to get blocked.
And blocked I think is exactly what happe…
Yesterday Elaine at the Shanghaiist reported a number of sites were miraculously unblocked -- Vimeo, Hootsuite, VOA News. Checking now and it appears Hootsuite has re-fallen to the mighty River Crab, but Vimeo is still powering along ... for now.
Twitter, Youtube and Facebook are all still unaccessible.
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The already unfortunate situation of internet censorship in China - imposed by the so-called Great Firewall - has been slowly getting worse this year, making a mockery of claims that the Olympics would open up China in terms of allowing a greater spread of communication and discussion. This year the Great Firewall has metamorphosed from a paranoid bug into a malignant disease, a raging cancer, blighting creativity, f…
I went to the supermarket today, but was blocked at the entrance by some dude checking his receipt and yelling at someone on his phone. Shrugged it off. Grabbed my gear and headed for the bus stop, but was blocked by some old lady super excited to bear witness to China's mass-transit system in motion. Shrugged it off.
On the bus, we headed away from the bus stop but were blocked by a black sedan idling the wor…
The Chinese government notoriously dislikes any organisation, particularly a foreign one, communicating directly to its people - so it's little wonder that the story of Google in China has been one of jumping through fiery hoops.
This week Google has been under attack in China over internet pornography, especially with regards its 'search suggestions' drop-down box, which can suggest some salacious terms for fairl…
If you've been using the Firefox addon Access Flickr, which allows you view Flickr photos while being behind the Great Firewall, you may have noticed some photos display just fine and some wont at all.
Since posting last june about the fantastic solution for us shutterbugs in China, Flickr has added a new "farm" for photo storage - essentially a different sub-domain of the Flickr site. Unless you are using the lat…
Finally. Finally a journalist has sat down and hashed out a detailed, sourced explanation of how China's Internet censorship works. May I just say, thank you Mr. Fallows.
James Fallows is The Atlantic's "man in China", and his article "The Connection Has Been Reset" is the first article I've seen that has given an extensive rundown of the technologies and policies the Chinese government employs in its battle with …
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