-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- FYI, Rich continues to play the media gadfly in tomorrow's editions of The Guardian (UK), taz (Berlin), and the San Jose Mercury News. Sameer's friendly web script said people kept trying to link to my nonexistent home page at http://www.c2.org/~rich/, so I made one, below, which I though you might find amusing. China attempts to control Internet -Andrew Higgins, in The Guardian, 4 February 1996 China thinks they can control the Internet. They will be proven wrong. Hack China! A new contest has been formed to reveal security flaws in The Great Firewall of China. Exploits and detailed descriptions are needed. Hack China and win a T-Shirt. Satirical contest not sponsored by Community ConneXion. We have not issued a press release covering this promotion, so this link will just return an error. Let's see what China does when the world finds out that subverting murderous totalitarian dictatorships is trivial in the modern age. More details will appear in the coming days. Last updated February 6, 1996. Do not send your hacks to hackchina@c2.org , because that address does not, in fact, exist, and will only return an error, making you look like a fool. To merit an award, an exploit must be made publicly available. Also note that "hack" connotes affirmative effort on your part to investigate and expose encryption and security architectures. Merely finding bugs, officials susceptible to bribery, and common configuration errors is not a "hack," and will not be credited on this page, though you can report such problems to rich@c2.org. We may be supporting an "other problems with totalitarianism" page in the future, but other forums are probably more appropriate. Taiwan (also known as the Republic of China) is a province of China not recognized as a separate nation-state by the United Nations (indeed, even Taiwan doesn't claim independence). The official name of China is the People's Republic of China, which is not a registered trademark, but they do have nuclear weapons, so you should still take them seriously. If you're in Hong Kong, get out while you still can. This propotion does not exist and is not affiliated with China, Taiwan, or Hong Kong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMRhBT43DXUbM57SdAQFicQP/aj5ClU4YAEsm1XVWTYTvA8cHDo8cGN3O 1tN0y6LGfFaWbcl+IldjZ4OuMTRjlx50c3EZTItw7PniVP/KjySotMmbAIusLVek PsMjMRtnyUJOY9Z/bAVkgepAN7NqpE9YXxEeNNUVrkzbicRgn35GaWjWrydI9EkW 72Xv5rhcs4c= =3fYn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----