TECH BUZZ WORDS The Great Firewall

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 | 6:00 am

The Great Firewall is a common term for controversial Golden Shield Project initiated in 1998 in the PRC (Mainland China). A function for central Government censorship it's a network firewall targeting the use of proxy servers and limits the use of IP addresses from using these to gain access to a global world wide audience.

Recently internet giant Google has created a worldwide wave of controversy as it has threatened to stop operations in the PRC due to continued censorship and alleged hacking into intellectual property and user data.

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