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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. first fist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first fist is when you fist someone first in quake 3 arena

    mad props to #six

    1. Re:first fist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Thats funny - I've never seen the 'fist' weapon in Quake 3 arena. Is that a secret weapon or something?

  2. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fisrt!

  3. 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!

  4. nytimes sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    free reg required

  5. just say NO to registrations! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    could posters please use some other URLs for NYT articles wich don't get redirected to registration page? /. don't need to descend to that level, encouraging users to donate and give away their personal details.

    Net is not secure, nor will it ever be. AND we like it that way, don't we?

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

    What if you used a Beowulf clus... nevermind

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