BladeofGrass wrote:thers this group...kinda like watch dogs who hack this stuff to get the truth out. Its from a basement computer lab in Toronto I think.
Yeah, and the next series starts at 10pm, Tuesday on Fox
Seriously, though, if you live in China and want to get past the Government firewall, it's not all that difficult.
There's no 'underground hacking' or anything like that, it's easily done by anyone with a small knowledge of the 'net. You need to find an anonymous proxy server (Which means it only reports its own IP address when it connects to another server, not that of the user as well) which is based outside of China's Government Firewall (i.e: Not in China).
(Many people use anonymous proxy servers outside of China. Every website you visit records your IP address, every search term on any search engine gets recorded alongside the address, every gmail e-mail received is recorded with your IP address, and the US authorities can ask for those lists of where you've visitied, what you've searched for, and read your e-mails without having to get a warrant once 6 months have passed. Which means, if you have 'bomb' of 'al qaeda' etc. somewhere in anything you search for, or any e-mails you receive (even if totally innocent), someone in the FBI will be reading every single e-mail and every single search term that you get and use...)
Anyway, as long as the IP of that proxy server doesn't become blocked by the Chinese Firewall, anyone in China can use it to surf outside the 'wall. It's illegal, but very unlikely you will be caught as they can't trace your IP. All that might happen is that the IP address of the proxy will get banned, in which case you have to find another, and there's thousands of lists going around, so that's not a problem.
Like many things on the 'Net, it's illegal, but due to the nature of the 'Net, the authorities will always be one step behind.