Examining How the Great Firewall Discovers Hidden Circumvention Servers (2015)

Tor stopped working (with bridge) when I was there last month. It worked for a day or two then stopped working. It didn't matter how many times I refreshed my bridges list, it just wouldn't work. Luckily I provisioned an Azure VM in Hong Kong which I could access via RDP to keep access to GMail, Facebook etc.

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Post by phw » Tue, Nov 08, 2016, 7:06 PM UTC

Here's a summary that's a bit easier to digest: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/learning-more-about-gfws-ac...

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Post by sbensu » Tue, Nov 08, 2016, 7:15 PM UTC

nbevans wrote: post #5

Tor stopped working (with bridge) when I was there last month. It worked for a day or two then stopped working. It didn't matter how many times I refreshed my bridges list, it just wouldn't work. Luckily I provisioned an Azure VM in Hong Kong which I could access via RDP to keep access to GMail, Facebook etc.

Did you provisioned an Azure VM while you were in Hong Kong or an Azure VM that was hosted in Hong Kong?

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Post by nbevans » Tue, Nov 08, 2016, 7:46 PM UTC

sbensu wrote: post #7

nbevans wrote: post #5

Tor stopped working (with bridge) when I was there last month. It worked for a day or two then stopped working. It didn't matter how many times I refreshed my bridges list, it just wouldn't work. Luckily I provisioned an Azure VM in Hong Kong which I could access via RDP to keep access to GMail, Facebook etc.

Did you provisioned an Azure VM while you were in Hong Kong or an Azure VM that was hosted in Hong Kong?

The VM was in Hong Kong. I was in Mainland China.

HK is not affected by the GFW, as far as I know.

Re: Examining How the Great Firewall Discovers Hidden Circumvention Servers (2015)

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Post by Animats » Tue, Nov 08, 2016, 7:56 PM UTC

kbmajor wrote: post #4

Readable version without extraneous nonsense: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2015/papers/p445.pdf

Thanks. That page has so much popup junk that I opened Inspect Element and deleted the popup nodes just to read the thing.

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Post by gerdesj » Tue, Nov 08, 2016, 9:41 PM UTC

kbmajor wrote: post #4

Readable version without extraneous nonsense: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2015/papers/p445.pdf

Thank you for that. I nearly lost the will to live and gave up around page two.