Thursday, December 13, 2007
The Golden Shield is only 'painted' gold
After reading the article "China's Internet Dictatorship" by Ma Jain, I did some research on my own and discovered some things that contradict what was said in the article. In the article, Jain mentions that China's new system of censor firewalls, called "The Golden Shield", is "more practical and impenetrable then the Berlin Wall". First off, you have to see the irony in him/her comparing this new system to the Berlin Wall, because eventually the wall fell. Now their is a group out their on the internet, called "The Global Internet Freedom Consortium", which feels that internet censoring is bad and goes against what the internet stands for. They make plans to build networks, email services and software, and other programs that override the blocks run by Government censoring agencies. One particular program has been very successful. The program called "Dynaweb", is a special network that is designed to go around through the back doors of the Golden Shield programs. It has already proven it self in Myanmar, by allowing the protesters to send images out of the country. GIFC also says that it has been able to get through to some people in China
Now another fact is that western computer designers are designing the Chinese systems, meaning their is a strong possibility that these back doors, which US system designers love to create, are easily accessible. If not, who's to say that the computer designers won't attempt to make a profit by selling the access codes to these back doors to the GIFC or similar organizations. Its only a matter of time, and the fact that both the article on the Golden Shield and the release of Dynaweb occured in 2005, makes me curious if future advances against "the shield" have occured already.
Now another fact is that western computer designers are designing the Chinese systems, meaning their is a strong possibility that these back doors, which US system designers love to create, are easily accessible. If not, who's to say that the computer designers won't attempt to make a profit by selling the access codes to these back doors to the GIFC or similar organizations. Its only a matter of time, and the fact that both the article on the Golden Shield and the release of Dynaweb occured in 2005, makes me curious if future advances against "the shield" have occured already.
