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'Hactavists' Get $3M for Internet Monitoring

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the seem-a-little-high-to-anyone dept.

raceface writes "The CBC is reporting that a group from the University of Toronto know as the Citizen Lab has received a $3 million grant. They intend to use the grant money to monitor and determine who is blocking information access on the internet." The grant, given to an international project that fights censorship, was given to the group by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a Chicago-based institution.

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  1. Mirrors? by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't seem to connect to the site for some reason.

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    1. Re:Mirrors? by Fex303 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I can't seem to connect to the site for some reason. So... How is China this time of year, anyhow?

    2. Re:Mirrors? by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 3, Funny

      When I used to work in the local college, the web proxy was periodically updated with dodgy domains.
      One time, the admin ran the update and for the next couple of hours practically all sites were down.

      It took them a while to realise that blocking all domains with *.c* in them wasn't the best approach.

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