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Bing Goes Full-On Censorship in English Search Results Within China

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Re: Bing Goes Full-On Censorship in English Search Results Within China

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So you force your citizens to install a compromised SSL cert and can now impersonate any website. Now what? If you want to monitor someone don't you have to proxy all their traffic? Is that even feasible on a country wide scale? Because you can't do it intermittently since a user can just check which cert the key is signed with to tell you whether you're currently being monitored.

I would think it's not only feasible, but also more simple than what the Great Firewall already does. You could probably do it on on 0.1% of the NSA's yearly budget. (Which, after some Googling, turns out to be 10M USD. That's even more than I expected.)

10B, not 10M!

Re: Bing Goes Full-On Censorship in English Search Results Within China

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Skeptical. I've been using Bing as my primary search engine for awhile here and haven't noticed any changes of late. When I can't be bothered running a VPN, it's the only foreign-language (ie. English) indexing search engine with reasonable results that is accessible (Duckduckgo and Google are blocked). For all the problems, Chinese internet has its perks though: we have many great, instant media streaming services, pervasive mobile payments and Taobao!
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