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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. Cute. by HaloZero · · Score: 2, Funny

    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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  2. 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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  3. Here's hoping that China retaliates... by RalphBNumbers · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...by producing and distributing software to combat government sponsored censorship of the net here in America.

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  4. 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!

  5. Sounds like Peek-A-Booty? by rculkin · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Peek-A-Booty promises to do the same thing that this project does - allow unrestricted access to the Internet even when procluded by your firewall or governmentall policy.

    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

  6. Re:Official USG policy, we don't pick on China.. by forii · · Score: 2

    They supply us with millions of dollars of goods produced by slave labor in gulag camps.

    Parents: Rhetoric can be fun to use, but please, be careful. Don't let it get into the hands of children.