interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering

Thu Jan 15 22:11:39 UTC 2004

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/01/12/2147220

  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Eyas S. Al-Hejery, PhD, may be the only 
computer geek in Saudi Arabia to have had the eyes of the world focus on 
his work. That's because he's head of the country's Internet Service 
Unit, which runs the country's infamous Web-censoring system that is 
supposed to defend Saudi citizens from "those pages of an offensive or 
harmful nature to the society, and which violate the tenants [sic] of 
the Islamic religion or societal norms."

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And if he fails, what with the fact that sending all Internet traffic in 
the whole country through a single chokepoint obviously creates a single 
point of failure, all Net traffic in Saudi Arabia stops.