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The Gaping Holes In the UAE's Net Firewall
Barence writes "The United Arab Emirates has its own Chinese-style firewall to weed out pornography and other 'unsavory' content. But as PC Pro's correspondent has found out, the firewall has more than a few holes in it. ISP helplines routinely suggest proxy server software that circumvents the filters. Access to Flickr is blocked, in case citizens' eyes should fall upon a naked buttock, but The Pirate Bay, which 'offers a range of bottoms to suit every need, including midget and donkey bottoms for anybody having a really slow afternoon – remains blissfully undisturbed.' 'Ultimately, I'm quite glad the UAE's authorities block websites, and thrilled that they're so inept at it,' concludes PC Pro's writer. 'Just like everybody in Dubai, all they've done is made me a master of internet chicanery.'" Guess that depends how closely they're watching the evaders.
Yes! Penetrate all their firewall holes!
Not really. Layers 8, 9, and 10 are the most difficult part of the OSI model to manage.
Hoist Number One and Number Six.
Yeah, seriously. The UAE is way more reasonable than those other wackjob Muslim countries.
(it's sarcasm, for those of you who can't tell by the content and context)
Security is mostly a superstition... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller
Apparently, regionally, Dubai blocks all mention of The Flintstones because people there don't like it, but the people in Abu Dhabi do.
If people get married and only have sex with this one person, all sorts of problems that plague society and individual people simply go away.
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Then they have a definitively dysfunctional relationship, and if their church has a spine at all, some counselling or even church discipline is in order. The Bible's quite clear on this one (1 Corinthians 7:5).