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Re: The "Great Firewall of China"

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 08:26:32 +0200

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 03:35:50AM +0200, Gisle Vanem via curl-library wrote:
> Did you folks know that github.com is blocked by the "Great Firewall of China"?
> Check here:
> http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/index.php?siteurl=github.com
>
> But www.haxx.se is not:
> http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/index.php?siteurl=www.haxx.se
>
> So I'd urge you Daniel to consider protesting against this
> Chinese stupidity by adding this simple JavaScript to some
> libcurl-pages under haxx.se:
> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/banner/gfoc_banner.js">
> </script>

I think it's ironic that not only does this protest requires loading arbitrary
Javascript from a third-party site, but it's served unencrypted and
unauthenticated and is therefore vulnerable to active manipulation by a
malicious party while in transit.

>>> Dan
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Received on 2016-06-18