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Tearing Down China's Great Firewall
quadsoft writes to tell us The Toronto Star has a look at three University Toronto computer geeks who are working hard to circumvent the internet censorship problems like those found in China. From the article: "But the computer smarts of Ron Deibert, Nart Villeneuve, and Michael Hull, combined with their passion for politics and free expression, have led them to develop a highly anticipated software program that allows Internet users inside China and other countries, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Burma, to get around repressive censorship and not get caught."
now that this has been slashdotted its only a matter of time before Chinese officials find a way to circumvent the circumvention (is that even a word?...)
good going tho, im all abouts free speechez n stuff...
The only people who care about the distinction are Geeks and Nerds, so get used to it, nerd.
They named this vaporware "Freenet 2."
Silence is golden... and duct tape is silver.
Isn't this /. news for NERDS?? you nerd.
It's true, you know. The tripple-barrel pun on firewalls, China's great wall, and the Berlin wall.
Technicalities aside, its name doesn't combine nursery rhymes with references to the buttocks. Worst. Project name. Ever.
How're you enjoying all the free speech and intelligent exchange of ideas?
Yeah, I'm just looking at the boobies too.
For sale: geniune piece of the great firewall of China.
Includes GENUINE certificate of authenticity.
You heard it here first.
barack to the future?
Nonononono - they don't die; the government just publicly says that "they cannot be found" (after the government has privately gotten to them).
"It's time to take life by the cans." ~ Bender ("Bendin' in the Wind", ep. 3-13)
You don't know why?
Well maybe it's because Iran is under the control of Islamofascist assclowns who, while they're not busy enriching uranium for nukes aimed at the west, are waiting with baited breath for the "hidden Imam (pronounced assclown)" to initiate armageddon.
If you have relatives there, encourage them to flee the country because I don't know how much longer it's going to be there. If the US doesn't roll over the place in M1's, the Israeli's are going to nuke it into the stone age. Thousands of years of Persian history may be coming to an abrupt end very soon.
Muslim community leaders warn of backlash from tomorrow morning's terrorist attack.
This isn't the first time China has taken this strategy. The last time they built a wall they were nvaded by the Mongol Hordes. There is no way China's firewall is any match for a planet of computer geeks.