Chinese Censor-Beating Software Resembles Malware, But Isn't

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 29, 2009 @02:49PM from the good-to-know dept.

coondoggie writes "Software designed to beat Chinese censorship may behave in ways that seem suspect, but it is all part of the application's strategy to fool the Great Firewall of China, according to one programmer of the software. 'There are many built-in tricks that do all kinds of things to confuse the firewall,' says David Tian, a scientist for NASA who works spare-time on UltraSurf, the free software designed to promote unrestricted Internet access for citizens of China persecuted for being members of Falun Gang, the religious group the Chinese government is trying to suppress."

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Re:Perhaps.... by rainsford · 2009-08-30 03:57 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Not everyone...but most people. In any case, the counter-example isn't that there are people who dislike Obama who aren't conservative, the counter-example is that there are conservatives who apply the same pro-executive authority viewpoint to Obama that they did to Bush. And while I am willing to agree that not all Obama haters are conservative, I do NOT think there are very many conservatives out there who give Obama the free "he's the President" pass that they spent 8 years using to excuse Bush's bullshit.