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Google Mirror Beats the Great Firewall of China

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the let-the-whacamole-commence dept.

An anonymous reader writes "TheNew Scientist has an article about a Google search mirror called elgooG that apparently beats the Chinese firewall to the outside world. It displays all of the text backwards, requiring you to use a mirror to read the text." No big shocker- but imagine how many such mirrors could exist ;)

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  1. wow! by mattbland · · Score: 3, Funny

    the vertical scroll bar even appears on the left side of my window in IE.

    i've even got used to reading the url's backwards.

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  2. The site got slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    anybody have a mirror?

    1. Re:The site got slashdotted by WEFUNK · · Score: 3, Funny

      Actually...

      It just got "dettodhsals"!

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    2. Re:The site got slashdotted by elindauer · · Score: 5, Funny

      using several mirrors, i'm quite sure it would be possible to make it look right.

      I'd love to see a diagram of the mirror setup that will reverse the order of letters on a screen without reversing the rendering of each letter.

  3. !thgir lla by Newer+Guy · · Score: 2, Funny

    !doog pu me' kcuf

    1. Re:!thgir lla by Loligo · · Score: 2, Funny

      !doog pu me' kcuf<

      . .SEOHS NWOLC gnikcuf si anihC .sessa diputs rieht pu meht kcuF.

      (htimS niveK ot sporp etairporppa)

      l-

  4. Huzzah! by Ravagin · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have had for years the strange and useless "party trick" ability to read english equally well left to right or right to left (on paper or in my head, leading to "talking backwards"), and it struck me as cruel that such an awesome talent would be so utterly useless - trust me, in performance, it gets old after about five or ten minutes.

    But now I can search for stuff backwards. Today, Google, tomorrow, the world! Muahahahaha!

    ahem

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  5. Re:Flaw in China's firewall. by Tablizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    They should only give access to a list of accredited sites. And block all others.
    Otherwise they would be fooled endlessly by such simple tricks.

    That would make the web almost useless. Then again, why should they care?

    I wonder what people see when they click on a blocked link? Do they get "not found", or "you notty boy, that link is subversive"?

    If the first, then people must think that a lot of sites are permanently broken.

    The gov could get around this by redirecting the links to some proganda page that resembles the original, but that takes a lot of labor. Then again with a nation of 1.2 billion people, labor is not something in short supply. Are they hiring, by the way?

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  6. Re:Reality check... Take a look at Western nations by Spruce+Moose · · Score: 2, Funny
    Look at what we do to people in the US. 1 person in 32 is, currently, "in the penile system"

    I would say 1 in 2 people are in the penile system.