I'm in Beijing too, and all along the time I'm here I've seen how internet sites become censored one day and uncesored the next day.
I realized about the censorship on flickr last week, I discovered a site called geektechnique which post photographies on flickr, I found interesting so I added the RSS to my e-mail client. After that, I've never been able to see its flickr images again.
The censorship of the internet in China is a pain in the neck because not only they block several websites I like that has nothing to do with the political thought in China, but also if they detect an encrypted connection (like the VPN I use to pass through the firewall and visit the blogs I like to read) they drop down to the floor your bandwidth, so using the internet connection in China is really exasperating.
I don't know why this "Great Firewall of China" has no interest for the hackers all over the world. I mean, apart of finding vulnerabilities on the network stack of Microsoft products, on the new webbrowser from Apple (it seems like a race: who is the first discovering the killer bug in the browser as it goes out to the market), and so on. Why these so advanced systems of censorship are not interesting for hackers? Personally I'm very interested on network security and the first time I heard about this system I cannot wait to know how it works and to know about its internals.
Thank you all.
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I'm in Beijing too, and all along the time I'm here I've seen how internet sites become censored one day and uncesored the next day. I realized about the censorship on flickr last week, I discovered a site called geektechnique which post photographies on flickr, I found interesting so I added the RSS to my e-mail client. After that, I've never been able to see its flickr images again. The censorship of the internet in China is a pain in the neck because not only they block several websites I like that has nothing to do with the political thought in China, but also if they detect an encrypted connection (like the VPN I use to pass through the firewall and visit the blogs I like to read) they drop down to the floor your bandwidth, so using the internet connection in China is really exasperating. I don't know why this "Great Firewall of China" has no interest for the hackers all over the world. I mean, apart of finding vulnerabilities on the network stack of Microsoft products, on the new webbrowser from Apple (it seems like a race: who is the first discovering the killer bug in the browser as it goes out to the market), and so on. Why these so advanced systems of censorship are not interesting for hackers? Personally I'm very interested on network security and the first time I heard about this system I cannot wait to know how it works and to know about its internals. Thank you all.