The Great Firewall of China upgraded

[Korean]

China tightens 'Great Firewall' internet control with new technology | Technology | guardian.co.uk

China tightens 'Great Firewall' internet control with new technology
Companies and individuals affected by new system thought to 'learn, discover and block'

guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 December 2012 11.30 EST

China appears to be tightening its control of internet services that are able to burrow secretly through what is known as the "Great Firewall", which prevents citizens there from reading some overseas content.

Both companies and individuals are being hit by the new technology deployed by the Chinese government to control what people read inside the country.

A number of companies providing "virtual private network" (VPN) services to users in China say the new system is able to "learn, discover and block" the encrypted communications methods used by a number of different VPN systems.

China Unicom, one of the biggest telecoms providers in the country, is now killing connections where a VPN is detected, according to one company with a number of users in China.

VPNs encrypt internet communications between two points so that even if the data being passed is tapped, it cannot be read. A VPN connection from inside China to outside it also mean that the user's internet connection effectively starts outside the "Great Firewall" – in theory giving access to the vast range of information and sites that the Chinese government blocks. That includes many western newspaper sites as well as resources such as Twitter, Facebook and Google.

Users in China suspected in May 2011 that the government there was trying to disrupt VPN use, and now VPN providers have begun to notice the effects.

Astrill, a VPN provider for users inside and outside China, has emailed its users to warn them that the "Great Firewall" system is blocking at least four of the common protocols used by VPNs, which means that they don't function. "This GFW update makes a lot of harm to business in China," the email says. "We believe [the] China censorship minister is a smart man … and this blockage will be removed and things will go back to normal."

But the company added that trying to stay ahead of the censors is a "cat-and-mouse game" – although it is working on a new system that it hopes will let it stay ahead of the detection system.

China is the absolute world leader in Internet traffic control and censorship technology, no one comes close.

 

[Kolaps]

LOL

There's no change for mainland Chinese to watch breeding videos anymore......

 

[gpit]

Congratulations to China! You definitely need to filter off toxins like "Korean"

-- oops! S Koreans are the number one foreigners visiting China and living in China.

 

[gambit]

Congratulations to China! You definitely need to filter off toxins like "Korean"

-- oops! S Koreans are the number one foreigners visiting China and living in China.

Better build a physical firewall, then...Call it 'The Great Wall II'.

What an image will that give to the world. The funny part is that all the Chinese living outside of this new 'Great Wall' will be cheering for it but will never live behind it. Kinda like the hypocrisy with the 'Great Firewall'.

 

[shuttler]

Better build a physical firewall, then...Call it 'The Great Wall II'.

What an image will that give to the world. The funny part is that all the Chinese living outside of this new 'Great Wall' will be cheering for it but will never live behind it. Kinda like the hypocrisy with the 'Great Firewall'.

does your adopted country have your fbi/cia/fsa firewalls too？i guess you must be very honored to receive all the psychological accolades as your covert or overt military actions are still killing civilians overseas！

 

[Kolaps]

Sometimes, reading Whites people comments in internet, I'm wondering who is actually being censored. A lot of news about China covered in Western media, but no one know the true of China.

Some of Taiwan media is also misleading too. Some kind of Cold War propaganda tactics. We act like superhero, but it is us who have the problem, big problem!

 

[rcrmj]

Sometimes, reading Whites people comments in internet, I'm wondering who is actually being censored. A lot of news about China covered in Western media, but no one know the true of China.

Some of Taiwan media is also misleading too. Some kind of Cold War propaganda tactics. We act like superhero, but it is us who have the problem, big problem!

its a simple logic, if there is such a 'tight' censership in China, then how did those news come out to light? gullible people are always buying these western propaganda about China, they are willingly to be brainwashed

if they knew some chinese mobile software like Weixin, or social network like weibo, they'd find out that those are the goldmines of finding China-bashing sources...

but thanks to those software that we are able to expose corruptions and bring hunderds of dirty officials to justice```i'd wonder what would happen to Indians if some ordinary citizen exposed dirty secret of their high caste owners

 

[suresh anil]

westerners help china upgrade the great wall