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VPN Comparison Boulder Beastmode

How does your VPN speed measure against other VPNs in China?

2.VyprVPN

3.FreeBrowser

1.HideMyAss

4.XX-Net

5.VPNSecure

12.PureVPN

6.Astrill

11.Tor

7.Lantern

10.Ultrasurf

9.Freegate

Speed

8.Psiphon

Stability

Speed (kbps) 1. HideMyAss

668 +236%

Stability 99% +3%

From ¥ 72.00 per month. Based on 215 tests in mainland China in the last 30 days.

2. VyprVPN

432 +181%

98% +8%

From ¥ 49.00 per month. Based on 134 tests in mainland China in the last 30 days.

3. FreeBrowser

433 +7%

87% +2%

Free. Based on 609 tests in mainland China in the last 30 days.

4. XX-Net

347 New

96%

Free. Based on 175 tests in mainland China in the last 30 days.

Speed (kbps) 5. VPNSecure

315 +86%

Stability 97% +19%

From ¥ 65.00 per month. Based on 7 tests in mainland China in the last 30 days.

6. Astrill

300 -44%

96% +2%

From ¥ 88.51 per month. Based on 80 tests in mainland China in the last 30 days.

7. Lantern

249 -15%

96% +1%

Free. Based on 276 tests in mainland China in the last 30 days.

8. Psiphon

236 +31%

91% +1%

Free. Based on 44 tests in mainland China in the last 30 days.

9. Freegate

178 -34%

91% -0%

Free. Based on 16 tests in mainland China in the last 30 days.

10. Ultrasurf

181 +3%

88% +0%

Free. Based on 7 tests in mainland China in the last 30 days.

11. Tor

136 +145%

96% -2%

Free. Based on 43 tests in mainland China in the last 30 days.

12. PureVPN

140 -21%

93% -2%

From ¥ 60.00 per month. Based on 85 tests in mainland China in the last 30 days.

The list of blocked websites in China saporedicina.com/english/list-of-blocked-websites-in-china/

You probably already know that sites such as Facebook, Youtube or Google.com are blocked in China and that the only way to access them is with a VPN. But what about the other hundreds of web sites that we normally use?

Are we sure that they’ll work in China?

One of the most frequent questions we receive is if a certain website or app, such as Dropbox Google Play, is blocked in China.

In this article we’ll list all web sites, which at the moment, don’t work beyond the Great Firewall of China, or the system developed by the Ministry of Public Security, (MPS) to control access to websites considered “dangerous” for Chinese citizens.

Which websites are blocked in China?

Here’s a list of the most popular websites which, at the moment, are blocked in China:

Social Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, Picasa, WordPress.com, Blogspot, Blogger, Flickr, SoundCloud, Google+, Google Hangouts, Hootsuite.

Apps

Google Play (this means that without a VPN you won’t be able to download any apps from Google Play), Line, KaKao Talk.

Search engines Google (both Google.com and the majority of local versions like Google.com.hk, Google.fr, etcetera), Duck Duck Go, various foreign versions of Baidu and Yahoo.

Media The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist Bloomberg, Reuters, LeMonde, L’Equipe (What do they have against the French?), Netflix, Youtube, Vimeo, Google News, Daily Motion, many pages of Wikipedia, Wikileaks.

Work tools Google Drive, Google Docs, Gmail, Google Calendar (generally all Google services), Dropbox, ShutterStock, iStockPhotos, WayBackMachine, Scribd, Xing, Android, and many VPN sites.

Porn Porn sites are almost all blocked; I don’t know of any exceptions.

Freegate en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freegate

This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Chinese.

(August 2012) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

Freegate Freegate 7.27

Developer(s) Stable release Operating system Available in Type

Dynamic Internet Technology Inc. (DIT) Freegate 7.59 Professional Edition (2016/06/27) Windows English, Chinese, Persian, Spanish Anonymizer

License

Freeware

Website

dit-inc.us/freegate.html

Freegate is a software application developed by Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT) that enables internet users from mainland China, North Korea, Syria, Vietnam, Iran, United Arab Emirates, among others, to view websites blocked by their governments. The program takes advantage of a range of proxy servers called Dynaweb. This allows users to bypass Internet firewalls that block web sites by using DIT's P2P-like proxy network system.

FreeGate's anti-censorship capability is further enhanced by a new, unique encryption and compression algorithm in the versions of 6.33 and above. Dynamic Internet Technology estimates Freegate had 200,000 users in 2004.

Dynaweb DynaWeb is a collection of anti- censorship services provided by Dynamic Internet Technology Inc. (DIT). DynaWeb is a web-based anti-censorship portal. Once users point their web browser at one of the DynaWeb URLs, a web page will be presented similar to the original, with most blocked websites as links. In addition, a user can type in any URL in the box on this page and DynaWeb will fetch the pages for him or her instantly. No software is needed, nor are any settings tweaked on a user’s computer. Since the Chinese net police watch DynaWeb’s portal websites closely and block them as soon as they identify them, DynaWeb must be dynamic. It has hundreds of mirror sites at any time, and each with a varying IP and DNS domain names to defeat IP blocking and DNS hijacking. On the backend, DynaWeb also has mechanisms to proactively monitor the blocking status of each of its mirror sites, and as soon as blocking is detected, it will change the IP and DNS domain name instantly.

To keep users connected to such a dynamic infrastructure, DynaWeb has a variety of channels to keep users updated. For example, a user can send a message to one of DynaWeb’s instant messenger (IM) accounts, and will get an instant reply showing the newest addresses of DynaWeb portals. Similar things are being done with emails.

By these many, dynamic channels, DynaWeb outsmarts any attempt to collect all DynaWeb addresses by the censors, because each user receives only a (different) subset of DynaWeb’s addresses. Automatic blocking detection combined with quick reaction apparently frustrates the blocking efforts on the China side of the Great Firewall of China (GFW).

DIT also releases a tiny piece of software, FreeGate, which directly taps into DynaWeb’s backbone and keeps a user connected to the dynamic channels automatically. There are indications that FreeGate has some capabilities built-in to exploit some zero-day vulnerabilities of the GFW. Today DynaWeb offers the widest range of options for users to access Internet freely, and supports more than 50 million web hits per day on average from Chinese users alone.

Creation and funding DIT was founded originally in 2001 to provide email delivery services to China for U.S. government agencies and NGOs. In 2002, DIT started to provide anti-censorship services under the framework of DynaWeb, and like UltraSurf, DynaWeb became a top contender of the GFW-penetration effort.

Freegate was created by Falun Gong practitioners

and has been financed by the Broadcasting Board of

Governors, a US governmental agency. Freegate also receives funding from Human Rights in China.

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which is also one of its clients and which receives some funding from the American non­profit organization the National Endowment for Democracy. According to a report, the US government gave funding of $685,000 to Freegate in 2005.

Malware reports In 2004 The Financial Times, citing a member of staff at Symantec in mainland China, reported that Norton AntiVirus identified Freegate as a trojan horse. There were initial fears that the reports may be a ploy by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities to encourage removal of the software from computers, but it was soon delisted as a threat. Symantec explained that its detection was based on the software operating similarly to various Trojan horses, based on the use of proxies to penetrate firewalls used to block web sites, but that it had

modified its detection to exclude Freegate.

In 2013, It was reported that 'pro-government electronic actors' in Syria sent electronic messages to rebels encouraging them to download a file named Freegate which was claimed to be designed to help dissidents circumvent state surveillance agencies, but actually it was a malware and the intruder was able to monitor what the victim was typing on their computer, and read or remove the victim's files.

In August 2013 while freegate was testing a new proxy program, some people thought it was a Phishing attack.

Reports from Iran said the users who used Freegate to pass Internet censorship in Iran, were led to a fake page instead of facebook's main website. Freegate published a note saying they were testing a new proxy program, and the fake facebook page was a tunnel. Although IT experts warned users to be careful with the tunnel link because it doesn't use SSL security so users' information is not encrypted.

RMD English | Indiegogo indiegogo.com/projects/rmd-english--2

-------------- This is our first attempt at setting something like this up, so bear with us please! We are real people, trying something that nobody, to our knowledge has tried. We can provide photo examples of how teaching works in classrooms and videos upon request. As a donator helping get your school off the ground, you will be able to follow the progress of the school developing online as we build and grow their website communities, with you as a part of it! You will be a part of a school in China, with students, parents, teachers all letting you be a part of their development -- this is what we want to facilitate. You don't simply donate and leave, you become a part of the school community, a part of the RMD team. These families pay nothing extra for this, this entire service is funded by you for them, %100 transparency, and you will see the results develop online as these websites continue to flourish with everyone working together. -------------"RMD English" will allow English training schools, who otherwise have no options to market themselves, host their school websites outside of China on international servers giving them: 1) Recruiting flexibility 2) Credibility 3) Opportunities to take advantage of new teaching technologies, some of our options include giving each school their own: (Below: The English translation of how this concept is being presented to the schools with RMD International.)

YOUR BEST TEACHER Your website should be your best teacher. Our search engine optimization, marketing, and education experts will turn your website into a powerful voice of communication allowing your school's web presence to disseminate your message reliably without restriction. We know the importance of education and the complications that arise and we are here to help with that.

BACKUP AND MAINTENANCE You are building more than a website, you are growing a community who is interested in what your school has to offer the future of their child. We will ensure that your website is properly maintained and backed up so that you never have to worry about losing any information.

SCHOOL WEBSITE PAGES * Overview * About The School * The School Team * Educational Services and Techniques * Photo Galleries * Video Streaming (from the United States) * Blog (maintained in English / Chinese) * Contact (mail servers available internationally) * Social Media Integration (Twitter, Facebook, G+, Flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn) ADDITIONAL OPTIONS * Online Classrooms - Conduct classes Online * Job listings - Recruit your teachers directly without having to go through an agency * Forums - Create an online community with education and community forums directly integrated into your website where teachers and students can interact with each other

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* Mailing lists - Allow families the option to subscribe to and get school announcements instantly * Active search engine marketing * Help Desk (bilingual staff) * Skype a Teacher * Live Chat * Maps * Interactive Quizes, Surveys, Trivia * QR Code support 4) Uncensored marketing outside of China 5) Opportunities for connections between schools, students, parents, and the world RMD will serve as a unique entity to place foreign teachers in touch with schools, and provide ongoing marketing and development for these schools online, in English.

These English schools have a "need" or "want", in general a desire, to be able to market themselves in English for numerous reasons: branding, information dissemination, enhancing teaching options, allowing foreigners the opportunity to interact with them -- allowing students and parents being able to be in contact with the school and teachers anytime, opening doors of creative thinking potential for each student.

Schools and agencies throughout China are often taking advantage of this demand for quality English language education. These smaller schools have no way to compete for relevance, except by being a part of what is being funded and promoted, simply following the marketing model set forth by the larger schools.

These schools tend to have little or no options/resources to market and promote without going through agencies who want to serve no interest of the school or teacher in furthering and monitoring the education of the children, but we can provide this service by becoming a unique "entity" to help build a resource these schools can use.

WHY WE'RE DOING THIS RMD English would like to be able to create a team that provides support for small English training schools throughout China that do not have the resources available to them for online marketing exposure and development in English social media and search (restrictions due to the country they are in unfortunately). We are dedicated to building/promoting quality English education services in China, promoting creative development, and helping foreigners be a part of this process. and recruiting a team of people to be a part of this endeavor. Our backgrounds at RMD are in the fields of education, creative arts, business, and marketing -- and we want to use our passion, with you, to make this project possible for all of us.

WHO WE ARE Ray operates a company in China that places foreign teachers throughout China, helping them with invitation letters , visa paperwork, finding schools.

PARTNER: RMD International http://www.jobplacementchina.com/ John is a former U.S. Marine who served in Japan with Marine Corps Community Services as a designer, art director, photographer and webmaster -- and most recently throughout China as a teacher and marketing assistant.

To see some of John's work: https://www.facebook.com/okinawa.pictures

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Ray helps place teachers in schools and has access to schools through China through his company in Beijing. For the past 2 years John has taught at several schools throughout China noticing the smaller schools had almost no way to promote themselves without going through a larger parent company. Ray/John dabbled with a website we called "China Saga" testing ideas to see how information could be syndicated by the schools without censorship.

The connection between schools and the contacts are made using Ray's company out of Beijing, RMD International -- in partnership with John in Denver, hosting and developing on the web servers -- outside of China's firewall .

Donators 1) Each donator of over $100 will be sent a video from the school thanking you for your help. (The RMD International team will obtain each video and pictures for the donator.)

2) Will be recognized at the school events which are usually held within the local communities several times a year to promote the importance of introducing English language training while introducing the school to the foreign teachers who are with the school at that time, allowing them to demonstrate teaching techniques.

3) Or more. Tell us what would make you want to be a part of this endeavor.

How the donated money is used: 1) Setup and maintenance for servers within the United States and Europe with domain names for each school.

Each donator will be listed on the newly build websites (unless anonymity is requested) and have access to the