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In which I reveal myself as Marie Antoinette (VPN dept)

Through the past year-plus I've discussed several times the value of Virtual Private Networks, VPNs, for avoiding the hassles created by China's internet-control system generally known as the Great Firewall. I won't give one more plug for the for-pay... ...full story at James Fallows

from James Fallows on Tue, Sep 09 2008

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