On Oct 22, 2009, at 7:38 AM, Chris Edwards wrote:
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Alex Balashov wrote:
| Understood. I guess the angle I was going more for was: Is this actually | practical to do in a country with almost as many Internet users as the US has | people? | | I had always assumed that broad policies and ACLs work in China, but most | forms of DPI and traffic pattern analysis aren't practical simply for | computational feasibility reasons. Not unless the system were highly | distributed.
Perhaps they only need make an example of a few, and thus introduce an element of fear for everyone else.
Not "a few," but rather quite a lot, albeit only infrequently, and at unpredictable intervals, with a very high inclusion/exclusion error rate -- an artifact of the absence clear and easily demonstrable line between compliance/non-compliance (which is itself an artifact of the 内部 [internally published only] nature of many of the related rules). http://www.usc.cuhk.edu.hk/wk_wzdetails.asp?id=2791 www.usc.cuhk.edu.hk/webmanager/wkfiles/2791_1_paper.pdf TV