p2pnet.net News:- In an interview in China Scope Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT) ceo Bill Xia described Dynamic Internet as, “a technical system to break through China’s Internet blockade … People in China cannot access any political forums or … new websites through the Internet. Dynamic Internet provides a variety of ways for China’s Internet users to gain that freedom.”

The quote comes in a ChinaTechNews story which also says that, according to Britain’s Financial Times, “Symantec’s local office has announced that a program called Freegate, which allows users in China to access government-blocked Web sites, should be considered a Trojan horse.”

However, “Symantec is to stop classifying a software utility that enables Chinese surfers to view blocked websites as a Trojan horse,” says The Register, going on:

“Symantec mislabelled this behaviour as that of malicious code and wrongly-labelled Freegate as malign,” says The Register. Symantec will stop classifying the application.”

There are more than 68 million surfers in China and, “The Freegate program, which is supposed to have as many as 200000 users, gives people access to banned Web sites by regularly changing proxy server IP addresses,” says the report.

In 2002, p2pnet carried a story on China’s IP blocking and content filtering system.

DIT’s Xia is working with p2pnet to revise the report and we’ll be posting an updated version within the next few days.

We’ll also be hosting Freegate on p2pnet.

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Update: Make that: we’re now hosting Freegate, and we’ll be including the link at the bottom of every story we post on events in China.

Xia tells us p2pnet isn’t being blocked there at the moment.

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See:-

Site - Dynamic Internet Technology

Internet blockade - Symantec: Anti-Blocking Software Is A Trojan, ChinaTechNews, September 16, 2004

wrongly-labelled - Freegate is not Trojan horse, says Symantec, The Register, September 16, 2004

IP blocking - Can China’s Net censorship be beaten?, p2pnet, November 13, 2002

Download Freegate - Freegate 5.2.zip

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