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2007-01-04 Science & Technology

Barbarian breaches the Great Firewall of China

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Posted by Mike 2007-01-04 12:28|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It can be circumvented. But access speeds are like dialing up using a 2400 baud modem. That's right - a 2.4 kbps modem, while using a broadband connection. Thus, even though you can circumvent the firewall, it's way too slow for routine use. For instance, how would you like to wait five minutes for a Taiwanese news website to display, and five minutes for each story to come up?

Chinese web surfers who can read English can read whatever they want without having to deal with the firewall, but there are probably more American web surfers who can function in Chinese than there are Chinese web surfers who can function in English. And the Chinese web surfers who can function in English seem to spend all their time in forums writing about all the good things that come to mind when they think about the Communist Party. The sad reality is that inside every Chinese isn't an American struggling to get out.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-01-04 13:16|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-01-04 13:16|| Front Page Top

#2 The cable cut in Taiwan has done a lot more than the Great Firewall has ever done.

You can get around the Great Firewall with a simple unencrypted proxy. For those of you who need to read about the F-G, use Tor.

Posted by gromky 2007-01-04 15:08|| 2007-01-04 15:08|| Front Page Top

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