[FYI] (Netzfilter, nicht Irak): Does the End Justify the Means?

[Joerg-Olaf Schaefers <listen@fx3.de>]

.. und staatliche gefoerderte Umgehungsmethoden ,)

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Does the End Justify the Means?
By Patrick Di Justo

Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,58082,00.html

02:00 AM Mar. 18, 2003 PT

If you can read this, you're probably not in Myanmar.

That country's military junta has blocked Internet access to Wired
News, as well as to most porn sites and to the website of the Free
Burma Coalition.

If you're in China or Saudi Arabia, you'll have a hard time viewing
anti- government websites and Internet porn. And if you're surfing the
Net from one of 40 percent of the libraries or schools in the United
States, don't expect access to websites hosted on Tripod or Geocities.

The University of Toronto's Internet Censorship Explorer permits
anyone with a Web browser to test the limits of certain national and
organizational Internet- blocking schemes. Users simply enter a target
URL and a country into a search field on the Censorship Explorer's
website. The software then scans the ports of available servers in
that country, looking for open ones. By using the foreign computer as
a proxy server, ICE then attempts to visit the target URL from behind
that country's firewall. The result is either the visible website or a
"page blocked" message is then returned to the user.

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MfG
 Olaf


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