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U.S. Government Slips Through China Internet Censors With New Technology
Fox News ^ | Feb. 5, 2011 | Judson Berger

Posted on 02/05/2011 10:54:24 AM PST by re_tail20

The U.S. government has figured out how to bust through Internet censorship filters in order to deliver news and other vital information via e-mail to people in countries like China, according to a recent report.

The official report from the Broadcasting Board of Governors detailed successful testing the agency conducted last year as it tried to slip data into inboxes in Hong Kong and China.

The testing involved technology known as Feed Over e-mail, or FOE, to bypass traps the Chinese government has in place to screen out unwanted Internet content.

According to the report, first obtained and published by the nonprofit GovernmentAttic through a Freedom of Information Act request, the technology "performed well in all tests." BBG confirmed the report's authenticity to FoxNews.com.

Experts behind the testing said this information weapon probably could not have done much good in a situation like that unfolding in Egypt, where the government was flat-out blocking Internet access in response to the political unrest.

"If there's a blackout ... nothing works," BBG Director of Information Security Ken Berman said.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: chinainternet

1 posted on 02/05/2011 10:54:29 AM PST by re_tail20
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To: re_tail20

Great, Fox News, let’s tell them all about it so they can plug the hole!


2 posted on 02/05/2011 10:56:41 AM PST by JaguarXKE (Life - It's 10 percent circumstances and 90 percent how you react to circumstances - Sarah Palin)
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To: re_tail20

Do we really need to tell the Chinese government that we are able to do this?

Sheesh


3 posted on 02/05/2011 10:59:03 AM PST by texmexis best
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To: re_tail20

Oh great. Now you can’t keep the Obama Brotherhood off your machine.


4 posted on 02/05/2011 11:00:40 AM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: re_tail20

Big deal. Our government is controlled by anti-American’s who are doing their best to bring on the New World Order/One World Government. And that new system of governance cannot happen as long as the United States is strong and soverign.


5 posted on 02/05/2011 11:01:04 AM PST by unkus
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To: Hardraade
Oh great. Now you can’t keep the Obama Brotherhood off your machine.

That's just what I was thinking.

Now China can look forward to billions of spam emails from the Treasury begging them to buy US bonds...

It will be the digital equivalent of the Jehovah's Witnesses that won't leave you along. Or the ex-girlfriend with a case of the drunk txties...


Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

6 posted on 02/05/2011 1:35:53 PM PST by The Comedian (Muslim Brotherhood = A.N.S.W.E.R = Soros = Obama)
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To: The Comedian

along = alone


7 posted on 02/05/2011 1:38:56 PM PST by The Comedian (Muslim Brotherhood = A.N.S.W.E.R = Soros = Obama)
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To: re_tail20

Nigerian scammers showed them how to do it. BFD


8 posted on 02/05/2011 2:08:37 PM PST by Leo Carpathian (fffffFRrrreeeeepppeeee-ssed!)
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