Another thing that is successful for getting around state firewalls is Tor, its an anonymizer that changes the way your traffic from a browser behaves. In essence instead of a computer talking to a router and going out it connects to other computers for that traffic. The data between you and the end node is encrypted. The important point to be stressed is whoever operates the end node can see the traffic, not where its coming from but where ever its going so if you use it to sign in unless the page is HTTPS, and the survival podcast doesn't have a HTTPS version, might be a good option to add for users
anyway if you don't care about someone possibly seeing your log on and password you can use this portable version
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en most people wont care about a forum password but if its the same username and password that you use for other sites (gmail, facebook ect) it could come in handy to a mischievous person....
