[Lake]

>>The one good thing about bureaucracies is that they are slow and stuupid when compared to rebel engineers :)

No, they are not slow at all! They have the most intelligent engineers woking for them and the most sophiscated internet censor gear sold by the US firms.

[Chad Fairbanks]

They have the most intelligent engineers woking for them...

Well, if their engineers spent less time cooking, and more time engineering, they'd be doing a lot better technologically... ;0)

[RightWhale]

they are not slow at all!

I heard that, too. The best and brightest young people are doing a fine job of policing the Internet in China. Pure dedication.

[Technocrat]

There's nothing so frightening as an intelligent bureaucracy. The only (almost) existing solution beyond that is a computationally intractable encrypted packet scatterer. You would see performance degradation of about 3 to 1 at best, and your web pages would show up all at once instead of gradually. The government engineers would understand it, and they would also understand that the only way to stop it would be to completely isolate China from the rest of the web.

The only other way I can think of that is more permanent is to create a class 4 semantic entity that is adaptive, goal-directed, and self-modifying and that can create a virtual firewall around the government workers, to make them think they are blocking the system when in fact they are not. That's still at least three years away, though, so you'll have to go with the inferior solution.