轩辕剑天之痕炼妖武器:US's ACTUAL plan to crack China's Internet fi...

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US's ACTUAL plan to crack China's Internet firewall?


As the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue again heats up the "Human rights talk" between both sides, and as US has set up a new channel to deal some special disputed issues with China, it is clear that US China cooperation already goes beyond the economic field and back to the ideological and soft power compete.


Few days ago US has just announced a plan to break China's Internet firewarll, aiming at pushing cyberspace into a new front for sending out US's "soft power and smart power".  


"Cat and Mouse" Game

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AFP/File – People surf the Internet in Hefei in central China.

The United States plans to pump millions of dollars into new technology to break through Internet censorship overseas amid a heightened crackdown on dissent in China, officials have said.


State Department officials said they would give $19 million to efforts to evade Internet controls in China, Iran and other authoritarian states which block online access to politically sensitive material.


Michael Posner, the assistant secretary of state in charge of human rights, said funding would support cutting-edge technology that acts as a "slingshot" -- identifying material that countries are censoring and throwing it back at them.


"We're responding with new tools. This is a cat-and-mouse game. We're trying to stay one step ahead of the cat," Posner said.


The funding comes out of $30 million which the US Congress allocated in the current fiscal year for Internet freedom.


The failure until now to spend the money led lawmakers to accuse the State Department of kowtowing to China. A recent Senate committee report called for another government body to be put in charge of the funds.


Another US official who requested anonymity said that the State Department received requests for funding totaling $180 million and that it chose which ones appeared most effective.



Budget Too Limited?


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The United States government is spending US$19 million to launch a series of cyber-attacks against the "Great Firewall of China" with new technology.



And although mainland information technology experts disagree whether the technology will allow unrestricted access to the internet for hundreds of millions of users, they agree on one thing: the budget is too small.


Professor Jing Jiwu , deputy director of State Key Laboratory of Information Security and an expert on cyber-warfare, said yesterday that the "slingshot" technology existed and could be quickly used to create holes in the mainland's firewall through which information could pass freely.


To identify censored websites, for example, the US government can secretly plant a few servers on the mainland that will trawl cyberspace and note any websites that cannot be accessed.


When compared with similar lists generated by servers overseas, the US side could determine which websites are really down and which were being blocked by the government, Jing said.


Professor Hu Aiqun, director of Southeast University's Information Security Research Centre, which has strong ties to the People's Liberation Army, disagreed. He said the US was probably developing a web browser that would encrypt information to bypass the firewall.


"Deciphering the code could be very difficult and requires lots of money and manpower, but it's not impossible," Hu said. "We have already cracked some of their encryption systems."
The strike and counter-strike between the US and China could go on forever, Hu said.


Regardless of the technology used, the servers and a bandwidth required would outstrip the US$19 million before producing any noticeable impact, the experts said.



"American taxpayers have good reason to question the budget because it is too small to do anything," Jing said.




While the intention of the plan is obvious,  a further focus is that - what technological break does US aim to achieve? And, is that possible to realize?


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