[LINK] China's Great Firewall spreads overseas

[Roger Clarke]

[Back in 2005, I speculated about ways in which China's modifications 
to backbone router technology would find its way into backbones 
outside China:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/the-net-effect/0
"The features that China wants installed in intermediating devices 
and software will gradually find their way into all of the suppliers' 
products, if only because it's cheaper that way."

[But I didn't think of this one!]


At 10:43 +1100 28/3/10, Kim Holburn wrote:
>Censorship can leak out of censored countries and affect people outside:
>
>>  China's Great Firewall spreads overseas
>>  Bad DNS information affects users in Chile, US
>>  By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
>>  March 25, 2010 04:31 PM ET
>http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/032510-chinas-great-firewall-spreads.html
>>  ... it appears that at least one ISP recently began fetching high-level
>>  DNS (domain name server) information from what's known as a root DNS 
>>  server, based in China. That server, operated out of China by 
>>  Swedish service provider Netnod, returned DNS information intended 
>>  for Chinese users, effectively spreading China's network censorship 
>>  overseas. China tightly controls access to a number of Web sites,
>>  using technology known colloquially as the Great Firewall of China.


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