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U.S. Tries To Open Up Web Access To China
An anonymous reader writes "CNET has a story about the U.S. funding software that will thwart firewall technology in China. It seems funny to me that while the U.S. tries to limit our access they are trying to open up China's. I wonder if I could use this technology in Michigan?" The agency funding the software is the International Broadcasting Bureau, an "independent federal government entity."
So we kick the shit out of Saddam for beating on his people, oppressing them, etc.
Are we going to do the same to China's 'net infrastructure? I'd love to see the DoD try to stuff an M1A1 Abhrams and six dozen marines through a 1 gigabit pipe.
Next thing you know, the White House will start publishing press releases stating that China is a threat for producing w32.* worms.
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If we had decent broadband I might have tried tunneling an x session over the Pacific Ocean, but I bet it'd require too much bandwidth.
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...the Bureau website, with its editorials against human rights violations, its copy of the Freedom of Information Act, and all its press releases about sticking it to fascist regimes, hasn't a single thing on China.
...by producing and distributing software to combat government sponsored censorship of the net here in America.
"The worst tyrannies were the ones where a governance required its own logic on every embedded node." - Vernor Vinge
Yes, it seems funny to me that while the American mercenaries try limit their country's access they try opening up China's. Let me more explain. The Americans, they always depend on a method what I call stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies. God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis!
Just because government employees or agents are committing the felonies does not make them legal, although it does reduce the likelihood of prosecution. But that's what [runaway] Grand Juries are for!
What I'd prefer to see is the US Gov donate money to the Peek-A-Booty project, which is open and written by some fine hackers (in the positive sense of the word) instead of building it from scratch.
I trust things when I can get source. NSA Linux (now SELinux) was denounced originally because it was done partly by the NSA, but it included full source and now is an accepted valid way to secure a linux box. The article doesn't seem to indicate that their peek-a-booty-like software will be open, so how can you trust it as much? Are you sure you're getting the actual Internet content, or just a US-propagandized version
Methinks it must be Taco! He must be hiding his identity so he can later post this as a dupe!
WTF are you talking about? Am I missing something? I have the $ to pay for access, I get it. Simple as that. Pass some of whatever you're smokin my way.
Straight from Bennett Hasselton at Peacefire.org: http://www.peacefire.org/circumventor/simple-circu mventor-instructions.html
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Unfortunately, OpenSA is Windows-only and isn't really very open-source friendly. Some of the source code is available for older versions. CGIProxy, the "other half" of Peacefire.org's firewall-bustin' solution, is a perl program and thus "open source", but the licensing is somewhat muddled: http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/faq.html#
The good news is that if you already have a web server doing SSL, just drop the CGIProxy software into a dir and have at it. I happen to use it and it works fine.
Does anyone know of a true open source, gpl-licensed alternative to OpenSA/CGIProxy. The requirements are: it be relatively easy to setup/install/use. Oh, and secure, too. And yes, I am aware of the "Security, Features or Ease-of-use - pick any two" quip, but I still want to hear what people think about this question.
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They supply us with millions of dollars of goods produced by slave labor in gulag camps. If you speak out against the communists or do anything they don't like, you can get sent away for a very long time. But we certainly don't want to raise a fuss about that. Holding China accountable would be bad for business. And the Bush administration has a very succint motto, "Dissent is bad for business." We're one big happy global family folks. Just want to point out that we didn't beat the USSR by buying their stuff. [-)
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