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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on October 03, 2005, 07:12:04 am

Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Kosh on October 03, 2005, 07:12:04 am: Is it free?

EDIT: And in case any of you are wondering, I tried plugging it into google, but it came up with a "document contains no data" thing. I guess it is one of those banned words......
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: kasperl on October 03, 2005, 07:18:43 am: More info?
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Kosh on October 03, 2005, 07:20:22 am: Ultrasurf is a program that I could use to circumvent internet censorship. I don't know anything else about it and I am trying to find out where I can get it.
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Rictor on October 03, 2005, 07:34:40 am: You can download it right on their website

http://www.ultrareach.com/company/download.htm
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Kosh on October 03, 2005, 07:42:33 am: I can't access their website. Looks like it is blocked too.
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Rictor on October 03, 2005, 07:45:49 am: Here you go, see if this works.

Nothin' to see here officer. ("http://www.penguinbomb.com/rictor/rictor/thingy.zip")

The user guide in Chinese ("http://www.penguinbomb.com/rictor/rictor/userguide_ch.zip") and English ("http://www.penguinbomb.com/rictor/rictor/userguide_en.zip").
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: kasperl on October 03, 2005, 07:45:56 am: What kind of censor are you behind? School? What kind of sites are blocked?
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Rictor on October 03, 2005, 07:49:15 am: He's in China, which means the censor is probably pretty damn sophisticated. However, I think it's encouraging that the company has a manual in Chinese, which probably means they're on top of the situation.
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Kosh on October 03, 2005, 07:51:45 am: Quote
Originally posted by kasperl
What kind of censor are you behind? School? What kind of sites are blocked?

I'm behind what the government here calls "The Great Firewall". The entire country is behind it.

Basically it blocks Falun Gong related stuff, the BBC, and a few other things too.

Ultrasurf is designed to circumvent it.

Rictor: Thanks. I was able to download the one with the exe, but I couldn't download the english user guide for some reason.
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: kasperl on October 03, 2005, 07:55:27 am: Don't get arrested.

And Rictor could try renaming that file, see if they check the filenames.
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Rictor on October 03, 2005, 07:56:14 am: Okay, try here ("http://www.penguinbomb.com/rictor/rictor/userguide_en.doc"). It's the manual, unzipped to .doc format.

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Originally posted by kasperl
Don't get arrested.

And Rictor could try renaming that file, see if they check the filenames.

I did. Now it's just called "userguide_en" which should be innocent enough.
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: aldo_14 on October 03, 2005, 07:56:34 am: Quote
Originally posted by Kosh
I can't access their website. Looks like it is blocked too.

:lol:

Bit of a bugger that, eh?

If you have any probs getting stuff, I'll try and - depending on size, of course - mirror on either my website or temporarily on somewhere else. It'd be fun to be censored by the Chinese government, after all - make me feel special :D

(and I'm not the only one here, obviously.......)
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Kosh on October 03, 2005, 07:59:18 am: Quote
Originally posted by Rictor
Okay, try here ("http://www.penguinbomb.com/rictor/rictor/userguide_en.zip"). It's the manual, unzipped to .doc format.

I did. Now it's just called "userguide_en" which should be innocent enough.

Still got a page can't be displayed error.

I'm interested in the program mostly so I can see the BBC again. I don't care much about the other stuff.
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Rictor on October 03, 2005, 08:00:17 am: No, that's my fault, I forgot to change the link. Try it again, I edited the post, it should be a .doc not a .zip.

edit: if it's the BBC you want, Firefox has the BBC newsfeed built right in, default. Maybe RSS feeds circumvent the censor? I don't know, it's worth a shot.
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Kosh on October 03, 2005, 08:02:48 am: Got it, thanks.

EDIT: Pardon me for sounding incredibly stupid, but how do I use the RSS feeds?
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Rictor on October 03, 2005, 08:14:49 am: With Firefox, every time you go to a website that has one available, there is a little orange button in the bottom-right of the browser that says "RSS". You just click it and you're off. Though the BBC feed comes built in, like so ("http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/483/likeso7kq.jpg").
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Kosh on October 03, 2005, 08:22:18 am: Still can't use the worldserivce :(

EDIT: I have another idea. I found a website called proxy 4 free. Maybe I could do something with that......
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Bobboau on October 03, 2005, 08:32:23 am: /*hears the sound of the red army on the move*/

are you sure this is such a good idea?
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Kosh on October 03, 2005, 08:35:13 am: Screw it. I'll just ask one of the other english teachers how I can listen to it on shortwave (yes, they do listen to it on shortwave). I'm just too damn lazy to put any more effort into it.
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: aldo_14 on October 03, 2005, 11:50:23 am: Quote
Originally posted by Bobboau
/*hears the sound of the red army on the move*/

are you sure this is such a good idea?

The Chinese only really give a **** about their own citizens, i.e. the people who haven't heard of such concepts as 'democracy' or 'freedom of speech'. If they were worried about a foreigner, they'd probably just expel him/her.
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Bobboau on October 03, 2005, 11:56:03 am: yeah, well I'm not sure I'd be willing to risk it if I was liveing there.
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: WMCoolmon on October 03, 2005, 01:04:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Bobboau
are you sure this is such a good idea?

Besiides, there's all that deviant pornography that the FBI is supposed to be starting to filter. As long as it doesn't involve a political discussion of democracy, that should be available, right? :p
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: vyper on October 03, 2005, 01:12:31 pm: Quote
Originally posted by WMCoolmon

Besiides, there's all that deviant pornography that the FBI is supposed to be starting to filter. As long as it doesn't involve a political discussion of democracy, that should be available, right? :p

You mean the FBI would filter this pussy? (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/23312483/)
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: aldo_14 on October 03, 2005, 03:32:25 pm: Quote
Originally posted by WMCoolmon

Besiides, there's all that deviant pornography that the FBI is supposed to be starting to filter. As long as it doesn't involve a political discussion of democracy, that should be available, right? :p

Morally degrading, so, er, no. Poor bastards can't even get porn. Well, they're not suppossed to anyways - but any firewall against smut is like holding up a bedsheet to block a tsunami.
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: karajorma on October 03, 2005, 03:43:23 pm: Quote
No dictator... no oppressor... can keep a people under unexcited forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need to be turned on. Against this power governments and entire armies cannot stand. We taught the Censors this lesson once before. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years... we will be AROUSED.
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: MatthewPapa on October 03, 2005, 06:45:48 pm: *watches kosh get deported*
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Bobboau on October 04, 2005, 08:50:31 am: do you think this thing would let me past the schools fire wall, that thing screws with me sometimes.
actualy I should probly start a seperate topic on it.
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: WMCoolmon on October 04, 2005, 10:30:56 pm: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14

Morally degrading, so, er, no. Poor bastards can't even get porn. Well, they're not suppossed to anyways - but any firewall against smut is like holding up a bedsheet to block a tsunami.

Pr0n is censored in China? :eek:

Thank the Founding Fathers for the Constitution.
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Kosh on October 04, 2005, 11:44:54 pm: Quote
Originally posted by WMCoolmon

Pr0n is censored in China? :eek:

Thank the Founding Fathers for the Constitution.

Yes, it is. They can probably get it through file sharing though. Techno-piracy is one of the things China is famous for.
Title: Ultrasurf
Post by: Kosh on October 05, 2005, 05:24:31 am: Sweet, I made something work. I am using 2 programs called Tor and Privoxy. Now I can see the BBC news site.