German hackers poke hole in great firewall of China
Found on The Register on Wednesday, 06 August 2008
German hackers have constructed a route around the great firewall of China. The Chaos Computer Club said its technology will help athletes and journalists travelling to Beijing for the Olympic Games to circumvent censorship.
Visitors to China are being offered USB sticks containing a browser that connects via the TOR proxy network.
Chaos Computer Club is offering the technology partly to offer an easy way around Chinese censorship restriction but also to make a political point much closer to home.
There are already TOR exit nodes operational in China. However, it's important, especially in China, to bring such ways to the attention of non-tech people too who consider China's firewall unbreakable.