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Comment Useless against PRISM but might prevent TEMPEST (Score 0) 259

PRISM intercept data in digital form, so the font means nothing to them. However, the font might be useful against TEMPEST (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_%28codename%29). The font can make it more difficult for attackers to analyze the Electro-Magnetic signals emitted by your computer monitors.

Comment We do detect restriction (Score 2) 30

When the download speed in China is significantly lower than that of in U.S, we categorize those websites as restricted. https://en.greatfire.org/top-sites (Yellow instead of red)
About Google. Google is in fact accessible(might be slow) most of the time, at least until you search something with it. If your keywords accidentally contain restricted words, such as carrot in Chinese which contains one word of a commonly used family name, also a family name of one of the Chinese leaders, then your connection to any google page would be blocked for 90 seconds.
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Submission + - Blocked websites in China overwhelmed Herdict database 1

percyalpha writes: "Greatfire is a website that automatically monitors Internet censorship in China. Recently, we improved our system to share all testing data with Herdict, a project at Harvard University on Internet blockages. User reports on Herdict of websites inaccessible in China are automatically imported into our system, and our data of websites blocked in China is also exported into the Herdict database. If you ever explore the first ten pages of herdict database, chances are all block reports are from China and imported from our system."

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