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It's funny that they say people use Tor "for a variety of reasons related to privacy, security and safety". They left out "firewall circumvention", which I have
by NelsonMinar 11y ago
It's funny that they say people use Tor "for a variety of reasons related to privacy, security and safety". They left out "firewall circumvention", which I have to believe is the #1 reason, at least in China.
- HeavenFox 11y agoUnfortunately, it's been a very, very long time since Tor was last usable in China.
- cloudjacker 11y agoI heard that internally, China has a very robust internet infrastructure, and it is just connecting to things on the outside that are broken
- envy2 11y ago"Broken" would suggest that this isn't intentional. But yes, you are correct; domestic internet is fine, but traffic in/out is slowed and interfered with nearly to the point of being unusable.
- cloudjacker 11y agoI heard that internally, China has a very robust internet infrastructure, and it is just connecting to things on the outside that are broken
- alexchantavy 11y agoCan you elaborate? Someone above commented that Tor was the only way they were able to get out of the GFW.
- chrisfosterelli 11y agoChina uses fairly complex artificial intelligence to detect TOR connections. Anything that "behaves like" TOR or a VPN is quickly caught on to and blocked. There are a few attempts designed to make TOR look more like standard web traffic, which are really interesting. It's definitely a cat-and-mouse-style game. Some have more success than others.
- wormseed 11y agoWith the meek-amazon or meek-azure bridges it works fine, albeit slowly.
- jokoon 11y agoLast year I was at some public school which filtered many thing with a proxy. I used TOR to be able to slack on reddit and hackernews.