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Ah man - I'm in China, and I've gotten used to Youtube and Blogspot not working, but the BBC is banned? This is bloody ridiculous. Anyone got a way through it

Ah man - I'm in China, and I've gotten used to Youtube and Blogspot not working, but the BBC is banned? This is bloody ridiculous. Anyone got a way through it that still works? When I was here five years ago the translate-English-to-English thing worked, but no more. I tried a good 20 or so proxies I knew as well before giving up... probably Hotspot Shield would work, but it slows down everything and there's nothing so important I need to do. Thoughts?

cturner 17y ago
Set up ssh on a server outside china. Run sshd on port 443. You may be able to just ssh to it. Or you can set putty up to tunnel to over HTTP, and because of the port choice it won't be blocked, unless they've made a specific rule for that IP. Tunnel all your operations through that link. In time, authoritarians will start profiling internet activity to sniff out people who do this (assuming they're not already). If you're a Chinese citizen then you might want to think about this. Other readers - what's a good way to set up squid or another proxy to complement this arrangement?