FC: Japanese government funds Internet-filtering software

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 02:52:52 +0900
From: SAKIYAMA Nobuo <sakichan () sakichan org>
To: declan () well com
Subject: Censorware funded by the Japanese Government

I wrote an aticle on censorware funded by the Japanese Government.
http://www.jca.apc.org/~sakichan/censorware/IAJapan/index-e.html
> Contents
>
>    * Introduction
>    * 1996-1997: First government-funded censorware was created
>    * My first action and the response from ENC
>    * 1999: Filtered proxy server was released
>    * ENC joined ICRA as a founding member
>    * 2001: Organizational change of the provider of the censorware
>    * 2002.8.8: a new, worse version of censorware was released
>    * 2002.8.11: I released a decryption tool
>    * Erroneous labels
>    * 2002.9.17: IAJapan tries to stop any criticism
>    * IAJapan and Government
>    * Notes
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SAKIYAMA Nobuo        sakichan () sakichan org




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