Picturing Tor censorship in China

by phobos | October 14, 2009

As reported, Tor was partially blocked by China on September 25th or so in anticipation of the CCP October 1, 2009 60th anniversary.

Here's what one directory mirror recorded for September,

And here's the growth of bridge users in response. Alas, like our graphs of bridge use in Iran in June 2009, we only have relative counts for bridge use, not absolute counts. But with a 70x increase in a week, we are talking about 10000+ bridge users:

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Twitter观光团～

Twitter观光团前来围观～我是 @chenshaoju ～

in PRC , using bridge ,over

in PRC , using bridge ,over the GFW !

Ma de in China!

Looking for a bridge

居然可以訪問

居居然然可可以以訪

居居然然可可以以訪訪問問

fuck GFW!

It's Mad[e] in China !!!!

Hi I'm in Beijing, and was

I'm in Beijing, and was using hotspot shield until it got blocked for the 60th Anniversary.

Now I'm trying TOR, but i'm having problems.

I managed to get connected to the TOR network using Vidalia and bridges (The TOR onion is green).

I also downloaded torbutton for FireFox, and enabled the torbutton, which added some proxy settings - 127.0.0.1:8118 for HTTP proxy, and 127.0.0.1:9050 for Socks.

However, i'm still unable to browse the the restricted websites. In fact, i'm not able to browse anything after enabling torbutton.

Can anyone please help me?

Thanks

I think you are missing

I think you are missing Privoxy ;)

Why??

I can't understand why China has blocked Tor...or maybe I understand. I was also unable to use TOR when I was in Beijing last month and have no idea how to solve the problem.

Visit this page directly from China

What a shame!

tor bridge

I've requested bridges last few weeks but it didn't work, finally I got useful bridges from Zuola. How does it happen?

Twitter观光团前来围观

What a foolish think for the Chinese Government to do

I feel blocking Tor was a mistake. I've never used Tor but understand how it operates and have it installed on my Ubuntu Linux console. It is an effective way of bypassing government surveillance.

Carry on Tor Project, carry on.

强贴留名

今天刚用上TOR，效果

今天刚用上TOR，效果不错,呵呵。我过去用hotspot shield,可惜它挂了。

原先一直以为tor是封

原先一直以为tor是封不住的,但在国庆前夕,tor倒下了.

但后来经过别人介绍,知道如何通过bridges来进入tor网络, 这时又发现tor真的是封不住的.

今天发现opera

今天发现opera mini的官方网站也被封了,真是不可思议.

Who send me a copy of bridges?

I don't find the bridges application except the site as https://bridges.torproject.org/. That site I can't access. who can give me one copy? pls send my email address lukeay@yahoo.com.

thank you in advance!

不用 bridges 也能够 tor runing

现在不用 bridges 也能够 tor runing ，我都好多天没用bridges 了

I still can't connect to a

I still can't connect to a relay directory in Bejing.

send email containing

send email containing BRIDGES as content by GMAIL to bridges@torproject.org. You'll get three bridges each time. And you can send multiple times to request more. Good luck.

OT: Surveillance also in EU

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Listening_to_you_at_last:_EU_plans_to_tap_c…

Run a Bridge Server in China

Hi there,

I'd like to run a Bridge server in China, to make the communication more stable. Sadly, Vidalia disagrees and tells me I cannot run a bridge, when I have no "free access" to the internet (and I guess here is meant, that I do already communicate via bridges).
Is there anything I can do? How to help?

Hi, I noticed the

Hi,

I noticed the tor-blocking as well. Now I have a general question about tor's safetyness:

When it is not a secret, which servers are tor-servers (even many bridges didn't work and were known by the government), then every Tor-entry-point can distinguish between usual-IP and tor-IP - right?

Isn't it the easiest way, just running a TOR-Server to get IP-addresses from tor-users? Also, as long as the websites don't support https, the can see the visited websites.

Am I right? Am I wrong? How can developers fix this problem?
Would be glad for expert-answers.

how safe is tor?

No answers?
Who knows something about enry-point-safetyness?

Chinese appreciate Tor,rather than Obama's China tour

When coloured people can become the president of US, do you think that US is the salt of the world democratic society? Well,let's see.We Chinese people do not expect Obama has an all-seeing eye,but as the president of US,Obama shoud see China has too many "coloured" things to cover truth. If Obama won't mention Tibet in last saturday Asia speech( he didnt'mention), he should, at least,don't swallwo all the "coloured cookies" (fallacy upon fallacy to cover any thing real),which is prepared for him for his China tour.

Meanwhile,we Chinese appreciate Tor,rather than Obama's China tour.

To address a backlog of China questions

If you are running Vidalia on Mac you cannot build bridges; at least that is what the documentation tells me.

All torproject download pages are blocked.
Privoxy has been blocked since early summer.
Popilo? Who knows... can't download update to use it. ;o)

Good luck. ;o)