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Re:Now let's just hope... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-31 18:51 · Score: 0 · on Unblock Google Cache in China

Astoundingly, I can access that site no probs from behind the 'great firewall'.

I can follow this one too (link from another post)...

http://www.ichrdd.ca/english/commdoc/publications/ globalization/goldenShieldEng.html

Can't view _any_ BBC World pages (news.bbc.co.uk/*), but I _can_ listen to BBC World radio broadcasts online!

I'm always hearing about how formidable the Great Firewall is, but on this evidence, they've done a half-ass job with the filtering rules.

I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing is manual, with 50000 or so middle-aged women in a sweatshop monitoring everyone's browsing. Like when you catch the subway in Beijing or visit the park, you give your money to one person who gives you a ticket that you then give to another person standing five metres away. People are cheaper than machines.

But the food is excellent!

A little update on the state of the great Firewall by kemikalzen · 2005-10-31 06:35 · Score: 5, Informative · on Unblock Google Cache in China

can be found on this site here:

http://www.ichrdd.ca/english/commdoc/publications/ globalization/goldenShieldEng.html

this is truly some 1984'esque reading

Sources by randolph · 2004-02-01 13:06 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Violates Human Rights in China

MS is only one of the firms and, perhaps, not the most involved. The most extensive report I can find comes from the Canadian International Center for Human Rights & Democracy, and names Siemens, Motorola, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Nortel Networks. I found two Amnesty reports, here and here.

Why the hostility to Amnesty International?

Re:Tinfoil hat or not? by ucsckevin · 2003-12-10 04:59 · Score: 5, Interesting · on China Releases Own WLAN Security Standard

This could be a part of the golden shield project.
For the past few years, China has placed top priority on the development of its golden shield project, which with the help of American companies like Cisco and Canadian companies like lucent, is the most ambitious surveillance project in history. It essentially allows public security (gong'an ju) unprecendented access to citizen's data, both government (i.e. danwei information) and private (email, telephone conversations, text messages, etc.). They want to make sure its citizens aren't discussing democracy, praticing falun gong, or any other unauthorized religion like roman catholicism (or any church that doesn't have a "patriotic" association with the government, or having an unauthorized birth.
I'm laughing at myself cuz I know I sound slightly paranoid, but it's true.
More info on golden shield (these three links are the same report, i'm posting three links as a hedge against any slashdot effect)here here and here
*** If you're really interested in this subject, check out Ethan Gutmann's upcoming book losing the new china his insight and understanding will really blow your mind.

China's Golden Shield by Jamyang · 2002-11-27 21:00 · Score: 1 · on Amnesty Calls Shenannigans on MS, Sun, Cisco

Corporations and the Development of Surveillance Technology in the People's Republic of China.

go.openflows.org

Nortel Technology Threatens Human Rights in China

MONTREAL, 18 OCTOBER, 2001 -- A new report released today by Rights & Democracy reveals that the Canadian telecommunications giant Nortel Networks may be contributing to human rights violations in the People's Republic of China. The report points specifically to Nortel's OPTera technology to be launched in China this week at the APEC Leaders Meeting in Shanghai.

China's Golden Shield: Corporations and the Development of Surveillance Technology in the People's Republic of China describes how technology developed for commercial purposes by transnational corporations, including Nortel, is being used by Chinese police and security forces to refine the targetting and repression of political dissidents. It also provides an overview of Nortel's long-standing involvement in the development of surveillance technology both at home and abroad.

Journalists covering the APEC meeting of 21 leaders, including US President George Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, will file their stories using Shanghai's new state-of-the-art citywide broadband network, purchased from Nortel.

"Although the network will provide western journalists with an efficient communication system, it will also provide Chinese authorities with an unprecedented ability to conduct surveillance and monitor the activities of human rights and democracy advocates," Warren Allmand, President of Rights & Democracy, today told a news conference in Montreal.

"Nortel is fundamentally changing the way content will be delivered across tomorrow's broadband Internet. Its Personal Internet strategy is all based on developing an intimate knowledge of an individual user's identity: their physical location and their content interests - not merely IP addressing," said the author of the report Greg Walton. "We are seeing the focus shift to censorship and surveillance of homes and offices; in effect, redistributing China's "Great Firewall" from the international gateways to millions of PCs. "

China still equates political dissent with criminal activity. On September 28, four Chinese citizens were tried for subversion for participating in an on-line pro-democracy forum. The four are but the most recent of several arrests in recent years for Internet-related crimes. APEC leaders are expected to announce an "anti-terrorism" pact at the APEC summit which many human rights advocates fear could be used to excuse increased crackdowns on Internet privacy, freedom of opinion, freedom of expression and the right of association, particulary in authoritarian states such as China.

"Civil liberties form the cornerstone of democracy and underpin the promotion and protection of other human rights", Mr. Allmand said. "They are protected by a number of agreements and treaties, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which both Canada and China have ratified."

He urged the Government of Canada to incorporate human rights safeguards within its domestic trade and investment promotion activities in relation to the Peoples Republic of China. Pointing to the myriad of processes and resources devoted towards the promotion of trade with China, Mr. Allmand said, "Chinese activists are risking lengthy imprisonment or worse for simply advocating political reform in their country. They need our support, not our complicity in the violation of their rights."

China's Golden Shield is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing the report in English, French and Chinese. The CD-ROM is a user-friendly package which includes additional information on China's Internet and domestic legislations, related Web links and several different privacy software programmes. The software on the CD-ROM can be downloaded from the Internet without problem if you live in Canada, the US, Europe or mot other other countries but access to it is blocked from China.

China's Golden Shield is a also a living document. Readers can contribute comments and suggestions to the online version by visiting go.openflows.org The go.openflows Web site also features news stories and commentary on technology, privacy and human rights in China.

For information:

Patricia Poirier or Mary Durran : (514) 283-6073

Greg Walton: jamyang@openflows.org

To order copies of the report or the CD-ROM: publications@ichrdd.ca

Rights & Democracy is a Canadian institution with an international mandate. It works with civil society and governments in Canada and abroad to promote human rights and democratic development through dialogue, advocacy, capacity building and public education. It focuses on four themes: democratic development, women's rights, rights of indigenous peoples, and globalization and human rights and has two special operations: International Human Rights Advocacy and Urgent Action and Important Opportunities.

Harvard: Where's Wan Yanhai? (Open Sources) by Jamyang · 2002-08-31 14:58 · Score: 1 · on Real-Time Testing of China's Internet Filters

China's most prominent AIDS activist has been "disappeared" - believed to have been detained by the police, relatives and human rights groups said Wednesday. img scr="BLANK IMAGE"

Many reporters have highlighted Wan's work in raising awareness about HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, - and also Gay & Lesbian rights in China. CPJ also highlight Wan's role as a webmaster - and as a leading critic of Beijing's neo-fascist Information enviroment, and cult-like Pledge of Self-Discipline Yahoo!

CPJ concerned about safety of Web publisher

Wan Yanhai is a courageous man - our thoughts are with him, Su Zhaosheng - his wife, and his family.

Read: The Great Firewall of China, by Xiao Qiang, Executive Director, HRIC - and CPJ's Asia Research Associate Sophie Beach, from the L.A. Times of August 25, 2002....

http://www.aizhi.org/ [aizhi.org]

Starting testing...

Stage one testing complete.
Stage two testing complete.

Testing complete for http://www.aizhi.org/.
Result:

Reported as accessible in China

Tested at request of Greg Walton,
China's Golden Shield, Corporate complicity in the development of surveillance technology in China Le bouclier d'or de la Chine

Open Source Intelligence

Http://go.openflows.org [openflows.org]

Related stories:

Where is Wan Yanhai?
China's most prominent AIDS activist has been "disappeared" - believed to have been detained by the police, relatives and human rights groups said yesterday.

China Net Spies

...there was recent evidence that state censors had removed the blocks on some banned Web sites to see who tried to access them. "The reverse-trace route monitoring we do on a regular basis shows a surprising number of interesting sites that were once blocked are now going through, but with anomalous traffic signatures, suggesting some systematic surveillance of sensitive sites. Perhaps the PSB [Public Security Bureau] is trying to learn more about surfing habits," he said.

The "Great Firewall" is failing
Beyond the Great Firewall - from censorship to surveillance
Gartner: China's Internet Strategy: Struggling to Maintain the "Great Firewall"
China, Nortel, and the Net

or Ethan Gutmann's Who Lost China's Internet?

if you're still interested.....Chapter Two of the private RAND study published Tuesday, "You've got dissent"offers an authoritative analysis of the evolving, multi-layered counter-netwar strategies deployed in the PRC -> increasingly redistributing the focus of the so-called "Great Firewall" from the International Gateways, through the ISPs and out to the cybercafes [;-)cracked versions of these filters available], the possibility of .cn ISPs setting policy on individuals' firewalls in offices and homes

Endnotes: Zi Xiang Mao Dun

P2P geektivists could note a parallel decentralisation of resources in the Future Trends section, in Chapter One for more on innovation at the Edge of the network:

"Dissidents, Falungong practitioners, and other activists in the PRC and abroad may increasingly turn to emerging peer-to-peer technology to exchange information."

All this augurs a mighty struggle deep indside China's networks in the coming years, but with China sending dissidents to mental hospitals a culture of self-censorship is probably the gravest challenge to free experssion.

Note to CowBoyNeal,language barrier: this installation has problems with Chinese charcters - there'd probably be people out there who have modified SLASHcode to handle Chinese UNICODE, and perhaps publish automatically to USENET, Freenet etc.

they'd probably also find time to translate this thread.

i'd like to go on, but some government employed s'kripty in Yunan's is busy thinking he can backdoor my network - its not an ethical thing - its the aesthetics i've got a problem with...so crude, juvenile. I'll leave you with a final link