[FRIAM] ssh tunnelling around regional content restrictions?

[Stephen Guerin]

Anonymizer used to be the standard for web proxy surfing to get around the Great
Chinese Firewall in the 90s. 

TOR is now in wide use.
<http://www.torproject.org/overview.html.en>

-Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Giles Bowkett [mailto:gilesb at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:54 AM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: [FRIAM] ssh tunnelling around regional content restrictions?
> 
> Does anyone know if solutions like this exist? I believe my 
> dad needs one.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Giles Bowkett <gilesb at gmail.com>
> Date: Jun 25, 2008 9:51 AM
> Subject: Re: Fooling the system??
> To: Graham Bowkett <graham.bowkett at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> That's ridiculous if you pay and they cut it to 10 minutes.
> 
>  There are proxies out there, mostly designed to enable 
> people in  oppressed companies like China to exercise free speech.
> 
>  This web site is frequently banned by dictatorships, 
> employers, and  the State of Alabama:
> 
>  http://boingboing.net/censorroute.html
> 
>  The link's a guide to getting around censorware. Only some 
> of these  will be able to handle things at a network traffic 
> level, though, and  that's what you have to do to get around 
> this video problem. I think  it's actually easy to do, *if* 
> you know the details, but I don't know  the details. I 
> believe it involves ssh tunnelling and getting a cheap  shell 
> account with any ISP or Web host anywhere in the United Kingdom.
>  As long as the BBC is directing its traffic to an IP address 
> located  in the UK, you're good. You just need to have 
> something at that IP  address re-routing that traffic to you. 
> I think an SSH tunnel would  get the job done, but I don't 
> really know how to build one of those.
> 
>  I might be able to ask around.
> 
> 
>  On 6/25/08, Graham Bowkett <graham.bowkett at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > They already have some TV and radio program(me)s blocked 
> to the US and  > although I pay to watch Newsnight sometimes 
> it is reduced from 50 minutes to  > 10 as I am not allowed to 
> watch the balance of the program(me=mid-atlantic  > 
> confusion) due to "copyright reasons".
>  >  I realize this is not your speciality.
>  >
>  > g.
>  >
>  > 2008/6/25 Giles Bowkett <gilesb at gmail.com>:
>  >
>  > > OK, *yeeeeees*, but I don't know how. But where did you 
> see any  > > indication that cheating it would be necessary? 
> It doesn't say  > > anything about geographical restrictions 
> in either the video or the  > > article.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > On 6/25/08, Graham Bowkett <graham.bowkett at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > > Gi,
>  > > > There must be some way to cheat on the US computer ID 
> and run it through  > an  > > > irl/url or whatever in the UK 
> to get this service!!??!!
>  > > >
>  > > >
>  > http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/25/bbc.television1
>  > > >  --
>  > > > Graham Bowkett
>  > > >
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>  > > >
>  > >
>  > >
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>  > >
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>  >
> 
> 
> 
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> Giles Bowkett
> 
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