LSSW Green Net 绿色上网LSSW Green Net Online 绿色上网Skip to contentHomeAbout← Older postsExporting technologyPosted on December 28, 2011 by adminExporting technologyReporters Without Borders suspects that regimes such as Cuba, Zimbabwe and Belarus have obtained surveillance technology from the People’s Republic of China.Posted in LSSW|Tagged Exporting technology|Leave a commentProtest in ChinaPosted on December 28, 2011 by adminProtest in ChinaDespite strict government regulations, the Chinese people are continuing to protest against their government’s attempt to censor the Internet. The more covert protesters will set up secure SSH and VPN connections using tools such as UltraSurf. They can also utilize the widely available proxies and virtual private networks to fanqiang, or “climb the wall.” Active protest is not absent. Chinese people will post their grievances online, and on some occasions, have been successful. In 2003, the death of Sun Zhigang, a young migrant worker sparked an intense, widespread online response from the Chinese public, despite the risk of the government’s punishment. A few months later, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao abolished the Chinese law which led to the death of Sun. Ever since, dissent has regularly created turmoil on the Internet in China. Also in January 2010, when Google announced that it will no longer censor its Web search results in China, even if this means it might have to shut down its Chinese operations altogether, some Chinese people went to the company’s Chinese offices to offer gifts, such as flowers, fruits and cigarettes.Posted in LSSW|Tagged Protest in China|Leave a commentChina UnblockingPosted on December 28, 2011 by adminChina UnblockingCertain sites have begun to be partially unblocked, including:The English-language BBC website (but not the Chinese language website).YouTube, although it has been subsequently re-blocked.Wikipedia (wikipedia.org), including the Chinese-language edition, although photographs and certain pages remain inaccessible.Social websites and free web hosting websites. However, these have also been re-blocked.Some foreign news websites.Posted in LSSW|Tagged China Unblocking|Leave a commentBypass China censorshipPosted on December 28, 2011 by adminBypassing Internet censorship in the People’s Republic of China#EvasionA number of methods are available to bypass Internet censorship in China, including:Using a proxy server located outside of China.Using Onion routing, as is done by the I2P and Tor systems.Using Freegate, Freenet, Psiphon, Ultrasurf, and other free programs that can circumvent Internet censorship and/or provide anonymous communication. Ultrasurf also scans for various government and commercial websites from the user’s computer and may be used to monitor dissidents.Using the open application programming interface (API) which is used by Twitter and which enables posting and retrieving tweets on sites other than Twitter. “The idea is th