{"id":2712,"date":"2013-05-02T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2013-05-02T23:22:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T04:22:03","slug":"updates-on-malaysian-censorshipfiltering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/05\/02\/updates-on-malaysian-censorshipfiltering","title":{"rendered":"Updates on Malaysian censorship\/filtering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"With mouths wide open by byte, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/80780516\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/43\/80780516_f6435e0413_n.jpg?resize=320%2C213\" alt=\"With mouths wide open\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>More updates on Internet censorship in Malaysia (follow up from yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/05\/01\/as-election-nears-malaysia-filters-the-internet\">As elections nears, Malaysia filters the Internet<\/a>).<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>MCMC denies that there are access restrictions, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/malaysia\/article\/no-access-restriction-high-ge13-traffic-could-slow-access-says-mcmc\/\">claiming<\/a> high traffic is what slows sites down.\u00a0Sheikh Raffie Abd Rahman, the strategic communications chief needs to realise that he&#8217;s dealing with people smarter than he is, so this kind of bullshit isn&#8217;t going to work.<\/li>\n<li>Brian Ritchie made an <a href=\"http:\/\/brianritchie.me\/devops\/infographic-how-to-bypass-malaysian-internet-censorship\">infographic<\/a> on helping people bypass the censorship. Should be good for most end users.<\/li>\n<li>Khairil Yusof from the Sinar project made a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Sinar\/censortests\/blob\/master\/testfilter.py\">simple<\/a> Python app to help you see if your connection is being filtered. This requires you to have a Python interpreter.<\/li>\n<li>An anonymous source pointed me to <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenlab.org\/2013\/04\/for-their-eyes-only-2\/\">For Their Eyes Only<\/a>. The report is chilling. Do a search for Malaysia (it&#8217;s a long PDF, I&#8217;ve not been able to read it all). It is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/malaysia\/article\/researchers-find-malay-language-ge13-document-with-spyware-says-report\/\">covered in TMI<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/security.my\/post\/49367747478\/you-click-goodbye\">security.my<\/a>. Avoid this file:\u00a0SENARAI CADANGAN CALON PRU KE-13 MENGIKUT NEGERI.doc. If you&#8217;ve opened it, you&#8217;ve got FinSpy. This was brought up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/malaysia\/article\/Malaysia-uses-spyware-against-own-citizens-NYT-reports\/\">before by TMI<\/a> via the NYT, however MCMC ended up investigating TMI over this.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In other news, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/?id=46282\">World Press Freedom Day<\/a>. 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