From 6aaaadcf2c7e65ad78d9b337fba3740b14f0faca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: vt100 Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:12:41 +0000 Subject: committing page revision 1 --- updates/2008/chinesewall.en.md | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+) create mode 100644 updates/2008/chinesewall.en.md diff --git a/updates/2008/chinesewall.en.md b/updates/2008/chinesewall.en.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9121fda3 --- /dev/null +++ b/updates/2008/chinesewall.en.md @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +title: Chaos Computer Club offers help to victims of censorship in China +date: 2008-08-04 00:00:00 +updated: 2009-04-18 19:12:41 +author: vt100 +tags: update, pressemitteilung + +In response to widespread outrage against internet censorship in China, +the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) offers aid in circumventing the censorship +measures to the affected athletes and journalists. + + + +The so-called "Great Firewall of China" \[6\] consists of an assortment +of filtering and blocking technologies, most of them installed by +corporations from the US and Europe. The Chinese government uses these +systems to disable access to websites whose content does not suit them, +or even modify website content en route to the user. + +"Censorship in China is a symptom of a surveillance state that has been +technologically supported by western corporations for years", CCC member +Björn Pahls comments on the situation. "Since its formation, the CCC has +always worked against all forms of censorship, which has become +commonplace in so many states today". + +The CCC describes technologies and methods of circumventing censorship +on a dedicated website \[1\]. Journalists and visitors on their way to +China are offered USB-thumbdrives containing the Tor-Browser \[5\] +software. The availability of these so-called "Freedom Sticks" is +limited only to the duration of the Olympic Games. Also, German digital +rights activist group FoeBuD e.V. offers "Privacy Dongles" through their +web store \[7\]. + +To circumvent the Chinese censorship, the Freedom Stick uses the Tor +network. Tor is a worldwide system of servers, run by volunteers to +combat censorship and suppression of information by anonymizing data +packets transmitted over the Internet. It encrypts the data and routes +it through different servers within the Tor network, rendering useless +any efforts of tracing it back to the source. A controversial new German +law on data retention, currently on appeal at the German Federal +Constitutional Court, criminalizes the operation of Tor network nodes. +This complicates the work of volunteers that support democratic +movements in dictatorships and oppressive states. + +"We are calling upon the German authorities to stop criminalizing the +operators of servers of the Tor network. The behavior of the authorities +is detrimental to the people in oppressive states, whose lives are at +risk. China is only one of many examples", says Björn Pahls of the CCC. + +### see also: + +- \[1\] +- \[2\] [Photo of the Freedom Stick, free + usage](/press/releases/2008/20080804/Freedomstickgetrennt.jpg) +- \[3\] [Tor and China, Roger Dingledine at the + 23c3](http://media.koeln.ccc.de/browse/congress/2006/23C3-1444-en-tor_and_china.html) +- \[4\] [Censorship in Germany + (German)](http://www.ccc.de/censorship/) +- \[5\] + [Tor-Browser](http://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/index.html.de) +- \[6\] +- \[7\] [buy Privacy Dongle + (German)](https://shop.foebud.org/product_info.php?pName=privacydongle-torpark-auf-usbstick-p-151) + +Media contact: Chaos Darmstadt, presse(at)chaos-darmstadt.de -- cgit v1.2.3