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The software development platform GitHub has been the target of censorship from governments using methods ranging from local Internet service provider blocks, intermediary blocking using methods such as DNS hijacking and man-in-the-middle attacks, and denial-of-service attacks on its servers from countries including China, India, Iraq, Russia, and Turkey.
Chinese Firewall Test - Instantly test if a URL is blocked by the Great Firewall of China in real time. Tests for both symptoms of DNS poisoning and HTTP blocking from a number of locations within mainland China. China Firewall Test - Test if any domain is DNS poisoned in China in real-time. DNS poisoning is one way in which websites can be ...
Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used in China to circumvent Internet censorship.It was created in 2012 by a Chinese programmer named "clowwindy", and multiple implementations of the protocol have been made available since.
Proxy servers outside China can be used, although using just a simple open proxy (HTTP or SOCKS) without also using an encrypted tunnel (such as HTTPS) does little to circumvent the sophisticated censors. [102]
Internet censorship in China is circumvented by determined parties by using proxy servers outside the firewall. [208] Users may circumvent all of the censorship and monitoring of the Great Firewall if they have a working VPN or SSH connection method to a computer outside mainland China.
GreatFire (GreatFire.org) is a website [note 1] that monitors the status of websites censored by the Great Firewall of China [2] and helps Chinese Internet users circumvent the censorship and blockage of websites in China. [3] [4] The site was first launched in 2011 by an anonymous trio. [5]
In August 2013 while Freegate was testing a new proxy program, some people thought it was a phishing attack. Reports from Iran said the users who used Freegate to pass Internet censorship in Iran, were led to a fake page instead of Facebook's main website. Freegate published a note saying they were testing a new proxy program, and the fake ...
Lantern is a free and open source [4] internet censorship circumvention tool that operates in some of the most extreme censorship environments, such as China, Iran, and Russia. [5] It was used by millions of Iranians during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in Iran in 2022 and again during the surge in censorship in Russia following the Russian ...