Toppling the Great Firewall of China

From eWeek:

The Great Firewall of China is no firewall after all.

The People’s Republic of China has no firewall perched on its routers to enable censors to block Internet sites.

Rather, the authoritarian regime relies on a far more sophisticated censorship system that uses a keyword blacklist and routers that reach deep into Internet traffic to find forbidden words or phrases.

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