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Google Mirror Beats the Great Firewall of China
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 ;)
is that the mirror site, http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/, is blocked by the copy of Websense used on my network. Heh.
Whoever stated that signature sizes should be limited to one hundred and twenty characters can just go ahead and kiss my
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.
/usr/bin/awake/too/long
anybody have a mirror?
That's great it displays text backwards and all, but mirrors don't reverse the order text. Make yourself a nice big "R" and hold it in front of a mirror. See the difference?
If you use a mirror to read this google mirror you are going to see the letters in the right order, but they are all going to be backwards!
The Chinese don't give a fuck about the Google search page, or the results page either.
They're being blocked simply as collateral damage, the target of the Chinese filters is the google cache.
You see people were using the Google cache to gain axcess to Google's mirrors of sites that the Chinese were blocking, such as Tibet.org
Using this silly mirrored Google mirror site gains nothing you click any of the 'dehcaC' (cache) hyperlinks on its result pages & you end up on the standard Google cache pages which are still blocked.
The flow of the text is reversed, but not the letters themselves. So if you look at this site in the mirror, the letters will all be in the correct order, but themselves appear reversed.
Ah-ha said Captian Nitpick!
http://kered.org
What browser are you using? The characters are normal (not mirrored) in MSIE 6 and Mozilla 1.1.
Fun with IP protocols.
;)
Slashdot - 1075594134
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Wonder if that would beat the Firewall also.
Discuss.
it's only 5 days since slashdot reported that the rumors of chinese blocking of google were false..
Maybe I'm feeding a troll, but it's only 2 days since CNN reported that AltaVista has now been blocked in a addition to Google. Also, it's actually been 5 days since most of the Slashdot readers in China disagreed with the anonymous poster who claimed the initial reports were false.
My next sig will be ready soon, but friends can beat the rush!
Google Labs - allows full searches, can circumvent firewall
Soap Client for Google Searches
Google Groups - still accessible for usenet searching.
"Teachers leave us kids alone
It seems that it works backwards if your computer has a compatable backwards font installed, no idea why any one (until now) would have one tho,,,
If I elgooG a elgooG result, do I get the original?
HORSESHIT. This is one of the stupidest comments I've ever read on Slashdot. Hope somebody mods it as a troll.
Learn the difference between "censorship" and "lawsuits". In the US, the media companies are trying to shut down or control these networks to prevent trading of their IP. This is not censorship. The companies are using their rights within copyright law. The government enforces these rights, but does not act out of personal interest. Sure, laws like the SSSCA would change this, but that'll probably be DOA.
Using the DMCA to prohibit redistribution might be more like censorship. As far as I know, trade secrets have not been accorded anywhere near the same protection as copyrights. The DVDCCA does not have the legal protection for CSS that would normally allow it to pursue the DeCSS publishers like Kazaa et al.; the DMCA (unfairly, I think) allows them to do so anyway.
China is different because the government is not protecting anyone's "rights", however abusrd these rights may be. They're setting up their corner of the Internet to be restricted from the beginning, unlike here where restrictions are (rather unsuccessfully) layered on top of an uncontrolled network. They are attempting to prohibit access to ideas, not copyrighted works. They want to control how their citizens think, not where they obtain (or how they view) their entertainment.
I'm sick of whiny Americans who are so upset about the DMCA that they claim to be oppressed. Your rights are not being violated because the MPAA won't let you download Spiderman. You're so naive from living in a free country that you're incapable of understanding what people in other parts of the world have to go through. What the DMCA is being used for is incomparable next to the evil of communism and totalitarianism.
Want to strike a blow for freedom and democracy? Stop wasting your time bitching about the MPAA and instead organize a boycott of Cisco, a company whose actions imperil the freedom of four times as many people as are affected by the DMCA.
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
Karma: T-rexcellent.
You still have the right to unelect your congressmen, or to run for office yourself. You also have the right to protest unfair legislation. You're also able to see what's happenning in our government because it is legally required to operate in the open, and you can even see exactly which companies donated money to which politicians. None of this is true in China.
I agree that IP law has tilted in favor of corporations. You're extrapolating this trend to predict corporate-organized totalitarianism. For the benefit of those readers here who haven't yet reached high-school US history, we've been through worse before. Labor strikes used to be broken up with armed troops. Now our economy is tightly regulated to protect the citizens against the industries. The DMCA and SSSCA are troubling, but I hardly think they're any worse than the sort of corporate welfare that's existed for many years.
We live in a mixed economy; deal with it. Socialists and libertarians may not be happy with our system, but it's worked fairly well so far. There are always extremes, where laws unfairly penalize or empower corporations, but I view this is the price of prosperity. The worst of our system usually gets filtered out sooner or later. This doesn't mean we shouldn't be vigilant against abuses, but it does mean we shouldn't be as hysterical as you and the original poster.
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?
Table-ized A.I.