censorship

I’m currently taking CPSC 430 and one of the requirements is to keep a journal throughout the term. I will be blogging here my class notes, thoughts, and links as they come up that are relevant to the course material. Also, see the other posts in the CPSC 430 category. Censorship Situation in Burma improved since book publication – reasonably priced internet, but slow. Burma VJ movie Circumvention Proxy, VPN – but hard to obtain from inside the country Tor, darknet Steganography – concealed writing in images/audio. Chinese vertical text (while filter reads horizontally) Obfuscation Fair use 4 factors (purpose/character Continue Reading

I’m currently taking CPSC 430 and one of the requirements is to keep a journal throughout the term. I will be blogging here my class notes, thoughts, and links as they come up that are relevant to the course material. Also, see the other posts in the CPSC 430 category. Class notes for today: Censorship – aka – auditing information, filtering/parsing, protecting people, limiting access, sanitization, giving people freedom to surf the internet without dangerous effects – usually has negative connotations -> bias 4 boxes – speech necessary to make change in society (American of course) – soap box, ballot Continue Reading