Posted on 09/20/2009 10:42:40 AM PDT by Iraqs Inconvenient Truth.
Edited on 09/22/2009 8:23:28 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
In the previous blog post about the Iranian firewall, we explored macro level Iranian traffic engineering changes (showing that Iran cut all communication after the election and then slowly added back Internet connectivity over the course of several days). Like many other news reports and bloggers, we also speculated on Iran’s intent — how was the government manipulating Internet traffic and why?
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I believe their government is very nervous these days.
Iran Azadi!
Would the Obama Kleptocracy do the same here if Americans resist?
Interesting, thanks for posting.
There are other “under the radar” means of connectivity in most countries, but I won’t discuss them here. Or in any public forum.
And since it usually comes up in these totalitarian firewall threads, James Fallows did a pretty decent writeup about the China firewall last year in The Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/chinese-firewall
March 2008 Atlantic
China’s Great Firewall is crude, slapdash, and surprisingly easy to breach. Here’s why it’s so effective anyway.
by James Fallows
“The Connection Has Been Reset”
Funny, China still hasn’t figured out a way to stop their hackers from infecting the rest of the world. By design? You be the judge.
They would love too!
An uninformed populace is a controllable populace!
I fear that a similar Internet filtering may happen here as Obama seeks to surpress any dissent to his march to socialism.
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