Archive for August, 2008
New Development in Censorship Cat and Mouse?
Just in time for the Olympics, the Guardian is reporting a development in how the Tor network diffuses that appears, at least temporarily, to obviate any established methods of web censorship. The Tor network was developed by the US Naval Research laboratory to anonymize (but not necessarily encrypt) Internet traffic. The Chinese government has been [...]
Posted: August 6th, 2008 under China, Code, Main, Privacy, Tech, U.S..
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China: When Monitoring Slips Up
I’ve been following this fascinating story about a major breakdown of propaganda controls at the the popular newspaper, Beijing News. The paper, apparently inadvertently, published a photo of Tiananmen victims taken by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Liu Heung Shing in its July 25th print edition. The whole story of how it happened and the predicament [...]
Posted: August 2nd, 2008 under China, Main.
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