Getting around a censorous Firewall
The Instapundit has instructions and links to instructions on how to get around a corporate firewall. Some governments have firewalled access to Boingboing. The list of Goverments include such bastions of democracy such as Qatar and the UAE.At fault in most of these cases is a US-based censorware company called Secure Computing, which makes a web-rating product called SmartFilter. But SmartFilter isn't very smart. Secure Computing classifies any site with any nudity -- even Michaelangelo's David appearing on a single page out of thousands -- as a "nudity" site, which means that customers who block "nudity" can't get through.
Last week, Secure Computing updated their software to classify Boing Boing as a "nudity" site. Last month, we had two posts with nudity in them, out of 692 -- that's 0.29 percent of our posts, but SmartFilter blocks 100 percent of them. This month, there were four posts with nudity (including the Abu Ghraib photos), out of 618 -- 0.65 percent.
In fact, out of the 25,000+ Boing Boing posts classed as "nudity" by SmartFilter, more that 99.5 percent have no nudity at all. They're stories about Hurricane Katrina, kidnapped journalists in Iraq, book reviews, ukelele casemods, phonecam video of Bigfoot sightings (come to think of it, he doesn't wear clothes either), or pictures of astonishing Lego constructions.
BoingBoing posted some methods to get around thes firewalls, which by first apaerances might seem silly because if one is blocked by the fire wall they might never see it. However the Bologosphere is quick to adapt, and Glenn as well as others have gleefully posted the instructions to get around the blockade. The tutorial might be handy for those who want to get through the corporate firewall as well as government blockades.
posted by Liberty @ 7:35 PM
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My friend and I were recently talking about technology, and how integrated it has become to our daily lives. Reading this post makes me think back to that debate we had, and just how inseparable from electronics we have all become.
I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Societal concerns aside... I just hope that as technology further innovates, the possibility of copying our brains onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's one of the things I really wish I could see in my lifetime.
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Well I acquiesce in but I think the post should prepare more info then it has.
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