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Despite having an internal policy not to sell to countries that engage in government-mandated censorship, Websense once sold web-filtering technology to Yemen, where it was used to block online tools that let people disguise their identities from government monitors.
Bill Aims to Curb Tech Firms' Exports Steve Stecklow 2011
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The authorities have followed them there, erecting an increasingly draconian web-filtering system aimed at isolating dissidents from each other and from the outside world.
A Green Manifesto for Iran Ilan Berman 2011
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Lawyers for adult - and violent-content web-filtering company Cybersitter claim in a federal lawsuit that the Chinese government purloined some 3,000 lines of its code from its servers as part of software for a national censorship project -- in which several international computer makers are accused of knowingly distributing throughout China.
Wired Top Stories 2010
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A California web-filtering company says it is the victim of "one of the largest cases of software piracy in history."
Wired Top Stories 2010
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“In the last review, the office allowed the cracking of web-filtering technology to see what sites are filtered out; bypassing copy protection on computer programs or video games available only in obsolete formats; cracking ebook copy-protection to allow the blind to use read-aloud software; and cracking computer programs protected by hardware devices, or ‘dongles,’ that are malfunctioning,” says the story.
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There is one funny element to the web-filtering in my schools: If you try to navigate to a restricted page, it goes instead to a graphic of an old-fashioned-looking teacher at a desk big hair, half-glasses perched on nose wiggling an animated finger in your direction, as if to say "Uh, uh, uhhh!"
In a glitzy but filtered place. Ann Althouse 2006
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“In the last review, the office allowed the cracking of web-filtering technology to see what sites are filtered out; bypassing copy protection on computer programs or video games available only in obsolete formats; cracking ebook copy-protection to allow the blind to use read-aloud software; and cracking computer programs protected by hardware devices, or ‘dongles,’ that are malfunctioning,” says the story.
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In the last review, the office allowed the cracking of web-filtering technology to see what sites are filtered out; bypassing copy protection on computer programs or video games available only in obsolete formats; cracking ebook copy-protection to allow the blind to use read-aloud software; and cracking computer programs protected by hardware devices, or "dongles," that are malfunctioning.
Any DVDs, Games You Want Cracked? Holly J. Wagner 2005
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And if a researcher has created a circumvention tool for the purposes of researching/testing web-filtering mechanisms, the researcher won't be limited to describing the controversial results.
Archive 2004-05-09 2004
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Use a web-filtering tool that protects kids from accessing inappropriate content such as pornography, nudity, online hate groups, school cheating sites, and profanity.
unknown title 2011
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