August 08, 2008
"Freedom Sticks" Help Skirt Great Firewall of China
A group of German hackers called the Computer Chaos Club have taken an online detour around the great firewall of China in order to provide journalists, athletes and citizens around the world with uncensored access to the Internet in China.
CCC is offering "freedom sticks", regular USB drives with an uploaded toolkit containing a browser that provides its users an anonymous way to send data over the Internet. The CCC is only providing access to the freedom sticks' software during the two weeks that the Olympics are taking place.
Our Take: The Chinese Government are in a catch 22. With 253 million people online, has recently surpassed the as the largest nation on the Net. The more people who demand broader access to the Internet, the harder it will be for the Chinese Government to keep their censorship alive. We have been saying for years that the dynamics of the Internet will never work in an authoritarian government.
Posted by Buzz Webster at August 8, 2008 06:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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