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CIA funds anonymous web surfing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold G. Reinhold)
Fri Aug 31 14:56:13 2001
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From: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
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Today's Boston Globe and New York Times report that the CIA is
funding Sefeweb technology that lets users surf the Web anonymously.
The parent agency of the Voice of America is negotiating a license
for the technology to use in bypassing China's 'Net censorship.
"The US-funded network of proxy servers running Triangle Boy would
provide a ''dynamic, constantly changing set of access points through
which Internet surfers in China can connect to VOA and to other Web
sites that are typically blocked,' Hsu [Safeweb CEO] said."
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/243/nation/US_to_help_thwart_China_s
_Web_censors+.shtml
So if a U.S. citizen working as a programmer on this project visits
China to deliver a paper at a conference and is arrested for
conspiracy to violate China's laws, will the U.S. consider the arrest
and subsequent prosecution a legitimate expression of Chinese
sovereignty?
Arnold Reinhold
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