Barbarian breaches the Great Firewall of China
"Wretchard" at Belmont Club
Popular Science describes how Sebastian Wolfgarten attempted to get around the Great Firewall of China. "Wolfgarten simply bought a server at a Chinese ISP by phone. Once the server was set up, he could log into it from Germany. And all the data that went through the server would be subject to the same digital censorship that Chinese citizens experience every day." Then Wolfgarten observed how the firewall worked and then he simply went around and over it. . . .
(Earlier Rantburg article with more tech-geek details here.)
Posted by: Mike 2007-01-04 |