Academic breaks the Great Firewall of China
News Computer experts from the University of Cambridge claim not only to have breached the Great Firewall of China, but have found a way to use the firewall to launch denial of service attacks against specific IP addresses in the country.
[July 3, 2006, 13:00]
Software tunnels through great Firewall of China
News China keeps a particularly strong lock on the Internet. The government has blocked popular search engines and prevailed on Western companies such as Yahoo to voluntarily restrict their Web content in China.
[April 16, 2003, 15:49]
Can you ever be anonymous on the Web?
News For example, China has one of the most extensive Web proxy server and monitoring capabilities in the world, aptly dubbed the Great Firewall of China. Dissidents and those opposed to the Chinese government, including other governments, constantly...
[February 7, 2006, 15:00]
Google bows to Chinese censorship
Talkback "Google becomes part of the Great Firewall of China" is what the title should be.
[January 25, 2006, 14:16]
China web clampdown ahead of anniversary
News The Tor project — a network of virtual private tunnels that is often used for anonymous communication and web surfing — said in a blog post on Sunday that the Great Firewall of China, which is operated by the Ministry of Public Security, had been...
[October 1, 2009, 16:18]
Amnesty: ISPs must protect free speech
News Last year, Amnesty accused networking giant Cisco of helping China create its Great Firewall — the internet-filtering system that prevents its citizens from accessing certain sites. Hancock also criticised "companies like Google, Microsoft and...
[February 19, 2007, 12:15]
Cisco keen to be seen as green in China
News Cisco has in the past come under fire from human rights groups for its close links with the Chinese government, having provided the infrastructure behind the so-called "Great Firewall of China", which aims to block Chinese internet users from...
[November 2, 2007, 9:33]
US legislature suggests China Web crackdown
Talkback The "Great firewall" of China may actually work better with this regulation because now China just has to have all the Internet traffic go through one point for filtering instead of making each company prohibit certain searches.
[February 20, 2006, 18:29]
Search engines sidestep China censors
News A number of mirror sites have picked up the Google baton and are endeavouring to work around the 'Great Firewall of China'. Since the weekend, Web surfers in China have been unable to access AltaVista.
[September 12, 2002, 8:03]
China will censor text messages
News Access to thousands of Web sites is blocked by what has become known as the "Great Firewall of China". Chain SMS (short message service) on mobile phones are causing comment in India, but in China, authorities plan to censor messages that are...
[July 22, 2003, 8:45]
Google's censorship struggles continue in China
News But it has confirmed that Google has dropped a previous method of determining how to self-censor its search results — pinging the so-called Great Firewall of China to see what sites are blocked — in favour of a new self-censorship method that the...
[June 17, 2009, 14:41]
Amnesty condemns tech firms over human rights
News This system, known as the Great Firewall of China, has been operating for several years. However, in a testimony in April to the US House International Relations Committee, Ethan Gutmann, a former business consultant in China, alleged that Cisco...
[June 1, 2006, 15:30]
Enemies of the internet named
News Cisco supplies routers to the Chinese Government, which are used to maintain the "great firewall of China". Operating a mail service located in China is a terrible decision," said Pain. If the servers are in China the police have full authority to...
[November 8, 2006, 13:09]
How much is junk traffic costing you?
News This is somewhat ironic given the country's strict controls on Internet usage and the millions of dollars spent on the "Great Firewall of China". Second on the list for junk Internet traffic was China.
[December 8, 2005, 7:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Opinions vary whether the Great Firewall of China is the fingers of authoritarian ruthlessness closing on the windpipe of freedom, an irrelevance to a people who just want to make more money and couldn't care less about such details, or about as...
[January 27, 2006, 16:50]
UK ISPs switch on mass Wikipedia censorship
Blog I had no idea until now that like China, we too have built a great firewall - only we keep quiet about ours.user Hahnchen said, on the noticeboard. The following notice has appeared on Wikipedia today when many UK users attempt to edit content:
[December 6, 2008, 22:50]
Hacking tools tipped to become weapons of the state
News Reidenberg pointed out that the Chinese government has already imposed restrictions on Internet traffic -- the "Great Firewall of China" -- to prevent access to certain Web sites. Governments could soon be using hacker tools for law enforcement and...
[March 10, 2004, 12:35]
