Chipping Away at the Great Firewall

This story in today's New York Times reminded me of when my blog got blocked in Korea during the summer of 2004 following the beheading of a Korean hostage in Iraq. It was an attempt by the government to keep people from circulating footage of the beheading on the Internet. But it was relatively easy to punch out by setting up a SOCKS proxy tunnelled over ssh back to my friend's apartment in New York. In January of 2003, I was able to get through the Great Firewall from my hotel in Shanghai using similar techinques. But I think they are getting better...

How to Outwit the World's Internet Censors - New York Times

The OpenNet Initiative (www.opennet.net), an international human rights project linking researchers from the University of Toronto, Harvard Law School and Cambridge University, tracks Internet censorship and the techniques used to evade it. To surf the Web in China and elsewhere without censorship and in marginal safety, said John Palfrey, a Harvard law professor and a member of the initiative, the primary tool is an old standby: the proxy server.