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Why the internet may not save us in a pandemic

Posted on October 04, 2008

Via The Globe and Mail: How a Canadian cracked the Great Firewall of China. Excerpt:When Nart Villeneuve couldn't remember the password to his Chinese MySpace page, the industrious Canadian hacker began examining China's version of Skype, and in the process, unlocked the inner workings of an Internet surveillance network tracking thousands of political activists in the world's most populous nation.From his tiny research lab at the University of Toronto, Mr. Villeneuve uncovered a system of servers containing the archived communications and personal information of thousands of dissidents and or...

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