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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."

2 of 23 comments (clear)

  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. 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