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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. Proxy by cuban321 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Question: What's stops someone from doing SSH forwarding to a US box, or using a US proxy?

  2. Firewall by AviLazar · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well you do realize the Chinese are just trying to come to modern times. Before they had the Great Wall of China (still around, but largely ineffectual) and now they have the Great Firewall of China...given enough time and a determined hacker it will also be largely ineffectual :)

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  3. Re:Did you know? by TheoMurpse · · Score: 0, Redundant

    argh, this just aggravates me...you mixed up japan and china you douche, and real-life with anime at that!

    http://www.fact-index.com/e/ev/evangelion_general_ characters.html

    there you can read about Naoko Akagi