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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."

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  1. Request to trolls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please do your best to post links to pretty pr0n pictures. Direct links to sites, especially ones where if you go up a level you get an actual index directory listing. Please! No goatse either! It is your destiny!

  2. The challenges and problems: by t_allardyce · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What if you used a Beowulf clus... nevermind

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