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China will ban all software and hardware that blocks Internet advertisements:
In a document published by China's Commerce Bureau [in Chinese], the People's Republic of China laid out the framework for a new Internet policy advertising law that will take effect September 1. This new Internet policy contains some radical changes to China's existing Internet guidelines, such as a blanket ban on ad-blocking. The new policy also pushes significantly stricter advertising guidelines, however, which could make it more beneficial to both users and companies.
Under China's new Internet Policy article XVI, all software and hardware that intercepts, filters, covers, fast-forwards or in any way prevents an advertisement from being viewed is prohibited. The policy explicitly points out that ad-block capability in email clients is also prohibited, as is network-level hardware that that may contain ad-block features. In our reading of the document, it would appear China is doing this to encourage what it would consider fair economic development of the Internet.
The new advertising laws do make some attempts to protect individual users from certain types of advertisements. For example, advertisements for prescription drugs and tobacco products are banned, and any products designed for pharmaceutical purposes must be reviewed by China's advertising agency before they can be put online. Advertisements are also required to be clearly marked, and they cannot be disguised as other content in an attempt to trick users into clicking them. Pop-up ads will be restricted to clearly display their location, and they must contain a clearly marked close button so as not to trick users.
This is good news for anybody seeking to hack Chinese Internet users.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by number6 on Saturday July 23 2016, @03:32PM
If you use the BSD operating system and you diligently configure its native firewall ipfw as part of your everyday security administration,
is this now considered breaking the law in the eyes of the Chinese !!!!????
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Some nice reading material on system firewalling:
Authority Netblock Blacklist - Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau
.https://cryptoanarchy.freed0m4all.net/wiki/Authority_Netblock_Blacklist
On these pages we will try to gather the netblocks of as many authorities as possible, making it possible to firewall them. ..........No authorities in our lives; no authorities in our machines! ..........IP ranges / blocklist (NOTE: this list has been assembled from various sources, mainly file sharing blocklists. .......7.0.0.0/8 #Defense Information Systems Agency, VA ........Central Intelligence Agency CIA:162.45.0.0-162.45.255.255 .........$IPTABLES -m iprange --src-range 6.0.0.0-6.255.255.255 $ACTION $COMMENT "Army\ Information\ Systems\ Center"
firewalling: Windows equivalent of iptables - QA, Server Fault, Nov 2010
.http://serverfault.com/questions/207620/windows-equivalent-of-iptables
how can I accomplish on Windows what I can accomplish via iptables? Just looking for basic firewall functionality (e.g. blocking certain IP addresses). ......................One way would be with the netsh command. ......................WIPFW (.http://wipfw.sourceforge.net/) looks very promising, especially if you're after that iptables rule creation flavor on a Windows box.
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I'm on Windows XP, and WIPFW mentioned at the ServerFault thread perked my curiosity ...
So I downloaded 'wipfw' and had a look at the README.TXT, and saw this line:
"""this port based on .http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/dummynet"""
so I visited that webpage to see who is this 'luigi' guy.
I discovered that 'luigi' is 'Luigi Rizzo', and he is one of the pioneering contributors to the BSD networking subsystem.
At his home page (.http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/) he mentions:
"""My email address happens to be in the RELNOTES.HTM file which is part of the Windows XP distribution, because of some software that i wrote and that apparently Microsoft used."""
WOW!!! this guys networking code was taken by Microsoft and used in Windows XP.
this perked my curiosity to find a copy of RELNOTES.HTM and actually read it; all these years of using WinXP, not once did I ever bother reading its release docs.
I found an online copy of RELNOTES.HTM here:(.ftp://mx2.daveg.no/Repair/Programs/Microsoft/Windows/Wndows%20XP/Pro%20EN/DOCS/RELNOTES.HTM).
After reading it, I was fascinated by my discovery of just how many people like 'Luigi Rizzo' had their code taken by Microsoft and included in Windows XP.!
I was shocked; I thought Microsoft was an original software creator, but after reading those Release Notes I am coming to the conclusion they are not much more than plagiarists and copy-cats.!
If I was a billionaire, I would love to pump millions and millions of dollars into the development of ReactOS and see MS-Windows fade away into obscurity.
The only time closed-source makes any sense is when it comes to little programs and utilities written by one author, like this guy for example:(.http://users.telenet.be/littlegems/MySoft/Index.html).
For complex systems, no fucking way should things be allowed to evolve in a closed-source fashion; they will end up swallowing all the fruits of human achievement, destroying the common good.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @06:06PM
It is well-known that Microsoft took the network code for the NT kernel from BSD. Some of the more obvious indicator are verbatim strings, that they went from a minimal noncompliance implementation to a full raw socket supporting Berkeley socket implementation in a matter of months, and that the hosts file and other network configuration files are in a directory called "etc" and are basically the only things in there with other drivers using a different directory hierarchy.