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Googling Behind China's Great Firewall

Posted by timothy on from the wot's-all-this-then dept.

xcham writes "The OpenNet Initiative, a joint project of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, and the Advanced Network Research Group at Cambridge, have released a bulletin regarding the type of filtering applied to Google by the Chinese government. Most notably, certain keywords are filtered, as well as Google's 'cache' function. More information on how the keyword filtering is implemented is available in a previous bulletin."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. Re:tunneling by secolactico · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I bet those in the know get a free shell account in another country and ssh tunnel all their web traffic through it.

    ... because a high volume of encrypted traffic would never attract the attention of the authorities...

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  3. Re:We're next by nanter · · Score: 5, Insightful
    That is not an answer to my question. Name one right.

    The right to due process of law as granted in the 5th Amendment.

    Want more to be listed, smart guy?