Hey, have you guys ever considered making a "Computer: Explained" type of series. Get academics to explain all about what is a computer...The math, the logic, the parts that act with each other, the display and audio, the code..like a go-to series to explain fully how a computer works. I'd leave the series thinking "Wow, I understand exactly how and what my computer is". It's such an asked question, and I think you guys can really do it.
That awkward moment when you realize that you want to use a generic example site instead of a specific property, and end up using one of the largest TV networks in North America instead.
They recently beefed up the web filtering in my school so that we couldn't access "irrelevant" sites during class time... It was a little counter productive because people began searching for ways to circumvent the blocks.
I am from Tunisia and before the revolution internet was heavily censored (youtube was blocked too). They blocked most of the known VPN and proxy servers, google search results for VPN, proxy or anything related returned a 404 error, facebook pages that talked about politics or posted links to a vpn software were censored too, even emails and attached files were monitored too. The only way to circumvent censorship was to ask a friend from another country to send you a new vpn program that is not known yet by the government to use, if you were brave enough of course
***** Actually tls was only optional on major sites with the default option being turned off. And during the protests, They injected some JavaScript keyloggers on facebook, gmail, yahoo and other sites that collected login and passwords of the entire country and took over some popular opposing facebook pages. So facebook forced the use of TLS from inside Tunisia before doing the same for the rest of the world. And even then they could have generated a valid fake SSL certificate, they have a national certification agency.
Where's her accent coming from? Iran? Pakistan? She's a nice addition to the (small) female cast you have :) Would like to see more of those small lectures =)
Really interesting. I was worried it would be something about trivial topics like how people online complain about progressive changes in media like games or movies, but it was about government censorship.
Mainland China is internet censorship now, but next yr. if Google wifi is manifest, things change, which is a good message to the world. (I'm a HongKonger, not Chinese, support our independent, thx!)
Yeah about that 3rd method (app based blocking), there's what they call "app signature" on firewall units, and sysadmins use that for all kinds of things other than blocking, like traffic shaping or monitoring. People can also submit new signatures to firewall manufacturers, and those that get approved are added to the database.
A lot of talk about freedom here. Freedom has 2 parts though, the latter seldom being used as a slogan. Freedom to do whatever we want (e.g. DDOS attacks, run foldingathome at work) and freedom from whatever we want (e.g. censorship, harassment). Not claiming to be an expert here; just heard it sociology class.
What Incentives do any of the corporate run search engine's have to serve you content that does not generate income? What to do when you have no contrast so you cannot even choose a more open engine? How do you know what you aren't being shown? People only notice censorship when they know what's missing. Let that sink in. Search engines have been so incredibly ignored as a user operated and steered process it's depressing. This timeline certainly has the crappier end of the internet onboard. Google is a polished turd that got to big. Yuck.
