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Saudi Arabia's 'Great Firewall'

Posted by michael on from the these-are-the-good-guys dept.

securitas writes: "We've all heard about The Great Firewall of China (see this Wired feature) but many don't know about Saudi Arabia's version of the same. The New York Times reports on the challenges and problems of filtering the Internet for an entire nation. San Jose's Secure Computing has the contract but may lose it when it comes up for renewal next year."

2 of 218 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Censorship isn't practical on the net by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    On the net there is just too much content

    You just added even more.....oooops! so did I !

  2. Re:Can't get there from here... by mttlg · · Score: 2, Funny
    The IP class will "appear and disappear" under the control of some fancy router that will make the whole country appear momentarily to send/receive from the Internet, but then hide them again so that the outside world can't "see" them.

    "Captain, Saudi Arabia is decloaking off the starboard router!"