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+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.
+
+<!-- TEASER_END -->
+
+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:
+
+-   \[1\] <http://chinesewall.ccc.de/>
+-   \[2\] [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)
+-   \[6\] <http://greatfirewallofchina.org/>
+-   \[7\] [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