On 3/1/06, Legatus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just talked to missionaries who were in China. They used a VPN back to > a private person's home to check and send email. I suspect that there > would be a lot of this pushing Chinese Internet traffic through VPNs to > western nations. The tighter China squeezes, the slicker the Internet > gets. China wants western businesses too much to lock down VPNs, so this > type of traffic will spread. They can spin their wheels trying block > specific IPs, but it will only last for so long.
With the right set of circumstances falling into place like tumblers in a lock, I could see this happening. It would make for a great science fiction story. One massive area of humankind is locked behind an iron information curtain, the two systems evolve and change in different directions, and then the curtain comes up for some reason, leading to earth-shattering conflict and sexy heroes doing somersaults from the Monumen Nasional in Jakarta. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
