full-disclosure - Re: Gmail and China's GFW

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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:49:23 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Alien Chatter <feedalienscoffee@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Gmail and China's GFW

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:52:22 EDT, Alien Chatter said:
> Gmail can be blocked by simply blocking Google's SSL certificate(s).

> Therefore, the following Linux firewall commands will stop any
> connection to Gmail:

Nope. They'll stop any *direct* connection to Gmail that you can actually see
the certificate go by.  Consider a user who uses an https:// encrypted proxy,
or Tor, or a VPN to another less fascist machine, or....

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