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Symantec Anti-Virus Supresses Privacy Tool

Posted by timothy on from the could-be-an-unfortunate-mistake dept.

salimfadhley writes "Symantec's 'Norton Antivirus' now attempts to remove Freegate, a program designed to help Chinese internet users view websites blocked by the government firewalls. Symantec offered no reason why the program (which is not spyware) was marked as a 'trojan' in Chinese versions of the software, however even an unattuned conspiracy theorist will guess that this was done at the request of the Chinese government. "

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  1. Wow. Did anybody read that last link? by bersl2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Even I can't come up with something that stupid.

    Either that, or something truly bizarre went on. I mean, I doubt the combination of a weird antenna and aliens even can produce unexplaned, defective pregnancies.

    But if it indeed does... "Truth is stranger than fiction."