Re: [rishab@dxm.org: Re: [silk] inside the Great FireWall...]

["Glymr Darkmoon" <glymr_darkmoon@xxxxxxx>]

i don't know which version of tor is on torpark but i know the alpha
version, the current and the previous to current ones would sometimes
take several minutes building the circuits... this might be where the
problem comes from perhaps? i wonder how long it will take for the
chinese government to figure out that there is now yet another way to
bypass their great firewall.

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:35:02 -0600, "Arrakistor" <arrakistor@xxxxxxxxx>
said:
> Yes,  it  works.  I've  read  the  websites  that  are  suggesting the
> downloads.  For  most  it  works,  for  some,  when they first open it
> firefox  times  out  so they assume it isn't working. However, it then
> appears  to  work  just  fine.  I  should have this timeout fixed next
> version.
> 
> ST
> 
> 
> Saturday, December 17, 2005, 10:05:43 AM, you wrote:
> 
> 
> > I'm seeing plenty of Torpark chinese downloads. Do we know that these do
> > actually work?
> 
> > ----- Forwarded message from Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <rishab@xxxxxxx> -----
> 
> > From: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <rishab@xxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:59:52 +0000
> > To: silklist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [silk] inside the Great FireWall...
> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i
> > Reply-To: silklist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> > using torpark [1] i was able to google for "shanwei" which the
> > IHT says i should not be able to do [2] and download pictures [3].
> 
> > -rishab
> > 1.  well... after a few mins, the tor connection died. now can't
> > connect to any site with tor. so i can't find the torpark url. but
> > ssh still works.
> > 2. IHT.com, asia section,  "China's tight lid on village
> > shootings", pg 7. from nytimes. sorry, can't connect now to find
> > url, have paper in front of me. "until tuesday, web users who
> > [searched  on google for] Shanwei, the city with jurisdiction over
> > the village where the demonstration was put down, would find a
> > handful of pages.... after a few screens of information unrelated to
> > the incident, the browsers of users who persisted froze..."
> > 3. http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-12-10/35613.html
> 
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Arrakistor                            mailto:arrakistor@xxxxxxxxx
> 
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  Glymr Darkmoon
  glymr_darkmoon@xxxxxxx

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