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[R'as al Ghul]

Maybe if write to them and word my letter politely they'll give me an uncensored internet connection?

You could use an Australian proxy.

[Mikeus Caesar]

You could use an Australian proxy.

Bah, proxies are over-rated.

I ran my own proxy that me and a friend used at school. Slow and highly unreliable. The ones given out by peacefire to use among thousands of people are no better.

[R'as al Ghul]

I was just kidding.
I think the Tor proxy cascade works quite nice but it still brakes my 600 K/bit connection down to 30 K/bit. To bypass the Chinese wall without loosing speed you'd need a VPN tunnel.

[Mikeus Caesar]

I was just kidding.
I think the Tor proxy cascade works quite nice but it still brakes my 600 K/bit connection down to 30 K/bit. To bypass the Chinese wall without loosing speed you'd need a VPN tunnel.

VPN tunnel? Do explain more.

[KukriKhan]

VPN tunnel? Do explain more.

... in the Hard- and Software forum, since we're done with the political angle.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Cool, i got a thread moved.



Ah well, at least my interest in VPN tunnels shall be sated.

[R'as al Ghul]

VPN= Virtual Private Network.

An example:
Universities offer their students and profs. access to electronic publications. If you access an electronic publication site from the University's library, than the University's IP address authorizes you to access the file. All campus machines wil connect to the outside world by the same IP address, enabling access to electronic publications to all machines.
Now, what if a prof wants to use this service from his home?
Easy. He installs the VPN software and goes online via his private ISP.
Now the VPN client connects to the University's server and creates a digital encrypted tunnel between the private machine and the University server. All requests that the prof sends will enter the Internet when leaving the U server. The data that is transmitted between the internet and the private machine can't be read by the private ISP because it's encrypted. The U server does of course know what you're doing.
Big corporations offer the same system for their employees who have home offices.
A similar service is also available to private persons. Usualy payable by credit card. Someone who is concerned about the privacy of his data flow and who wants to maintain the speed of his line would've to make a VPN account in a country that does not filter content and does not disclose a customers data unless he's charged with a serious crime. There's a service in Sweden which will only disclose data in case of alleged child pornography swapping or anything that will result in 2+ years jail. which does not include copyright infringements.

R'as

[R'as al Ghul]

... in the Hard- and Software forum, since we're done with the political angle.

Actually, this is all about politics. Freedom of speech, expression of thoughts and communication are all basic human needs and increasingly political issues.
But, I agree we've similar threads in backroom already.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Actually, this is all about politics. Freedom of speech, expression of thoughts and communication are all basic human needs and increasingly political issues.
But, I agree we've similar threads in backroom already.

Indeed, my thread that was made for moaning about Aussie censorship can also accommodate Chinese censorship and the things listed above.

[R'as al Ghul]

It's a mixture of both. "Any technology sufficiently advanced is close to magic"
You rent a new provider, so to say. The local ISP is only used to access the carrier hardware. Yes you dial into their servers and you pay them but they know nothing about your communication, only that it's encrypted.

Mikeus with VPN client-----------------------------VPN server-------Internet
..............................connected via Australian ISP to.................connects to

So the Aussie ISP knows that you receive x k/bit or x GB from that VPN server address. In fact they know that all you do with Internet access is connecting to that address. There're legitimate reasons for that.
But in reality you're accessing all of the web through the VPN server.

All other rules of the web apply of course. If you give your data to the wrong people no VPN can save you.