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U.S. Tries To Open Up Web Access To China

Posted by timothy on from the kinda-sorta dept.

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."

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  1. China's Great Firewall by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    My dad used to work in China for British Petroleum near Hong Kong. In high school I'd spend summers there, and when I did I just ssh'ed to my box here in the US and fire up links whenever I hit a blocked site.

    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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  2. DMCA violation? by redelm · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Isn't this a violation of the US DMCA or other US laws prohibiting unauthorized access to computer systems?

    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!