Comment Re:Sorry Katz, its technically feasible (Score 1) 281
Technically feasible? Hmmm...
It's certainly technically feasible to censor your average point-and-drool windows-using moron, sure. Give even that moron a copy of the most rudimentary encryption program, and filters, etc, are useless.
PGP, especially GPG (open-source 2048-bit-encryption, yay!) is great. You can get GPG from german servers, too, so that US export stupidity doesn't apply.
The wonderful thing about the internet is that any bit of data can be made public, and there's so much of it that it's just not possible to scan through every bit of it. The censorship schemes assume that any data of interest will be plain, human-readable text. Put the same censored data in a jpeg, and then what? (just to give a web-centric example for the person who originated this thread, and is naive enough to think that censorship might work.)
Think again.
It's certainly technically feasible to censor your average point-and-drool windows-using moron, sure. Give even that moron a copy of the most rudimentary encryption program, and filters, etc, are useless.
PGP, especially GPG (open-source 2048-bit-encryption, yay!) is great. You can get GPG from german servers, too, so that US export stupidity doesn't apply.
The wonderful thing about the internet is that any bit of data can be made public, and there's so much of it that it's just not possible to scan through every bit of it. The censorship schemes assume that any data of interest will be plain, human-readable text. Put the same censored data in a jpeg, and then what? (just to give a web-centric example for the person who originated this thread, and is naive enough to think that censorship might work.)
Think again.
