Tor Blocked in China

Likely in anticipation of the Communist Party’s upcoming 60 year anniversary, Tor has been blocked. To get around the GFW, you’ll need to add a bridge:

  • send an email to bridges.at.torproject.org (replace .at.) with only the message get bridges in the body.
  • open your Vidalia preferences
  • under the network tab, check “My ISP blocks connections to the Tor network”
  • add one of the bridges addresses you got in your email response to the list in the preference dialog.

The email must be sent from a GMail or Yahoo! account.

Thanks to Billy for noticing the block and offering the fix.