原文如下：
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-08/15/content_8573401.htm
不过已经过去很久了，我在炒冷饭
US testing new system to bypass web filters
By Lara Farrar and Cui Jia (China Daily)
The US government is testing a new technology in China that could
soon give the country's 300 million web users another way to access
information blocked by the Chinese government's filters.
The technology would pose yet another challenge to Beijing, which
has been struggling to keep improper and violent materials,
including pornography, away from its Internet users.
Earlier this week, Chinese officials announced they had abandoned
plans to ensure that every computer sold in the country had the
controversial Green Dam content-filtering software installed, after
being criticized by the international business community and
Internet users.
The "feed over email" (FOE) system being tested by the US would
allow people living in China to access blocked information via
encrypted news feeds sent to foreign email accounts.
The system will provide an easier channel to circumvent web
filters, Ken Berman, head of IT at the US government's Broadcasting
Board of Governors, told China Daily on Friday.
Berman said the agency that runs Voice of America, a
government-funded international broadcasting service, has been
running trials of the new software for six months and expects it to
be available for widespread use by the end of this year.
"This is just another way to help try to open the air waves," said
Berman.
"These things are only successful if there is a certain critical
mass of people who use it," said Berman. "This is hard to
predict."
The US government wants to send a message to countries applying
strict control over the Internet that people have the right to
access any information they want, that is why FOE is developed by
the US government, said Pan Wei, a professor in Peking University's
School of International Studies.
"China should be confident enough to be transparent and take
criticism. It's about time China loosened its control over the
Internet," Pan said. "It actually damages China's international
image."
Charles Mok, chairman of the Internet Society of Hong Kong, said:
"It would probably be more ideal if civil society's efforts within
the community gathered resources to come up with a similar sort of
implementation rather than being government driven."
The government had already been losing its battle in monitoring the
Net, regardless of the success of the new US technology, said Hu
Yong, a founding director for China New Media Communication
Association. "People could always find ways to bypass the system as
technology develops."
"Chinese netizens have been using proxy servers to access the
information blocked by the government for a long time, FOE is just
a more convenient tool," Hu said.
"From a security perspective, this is nothing new," said Thomas
Parenty, a China-based IT security consultant and former US
National Security Agency programmer.
The US seems to be basically trying to tackle the problem of
getting past Internet filters by using encrypted email as the
transport mechanism as opposed to using web proxies, which has been
the traditional approach, he said.
Officials from the Internet affairs bureau of the Ministry of
Industry and Information Technology were not available on Friday to
comment on the news.
Lots of people know how to use proxies to get around Internet
blocks, said Jeremy Goldkorn, founder of the Chinese media
monitoring website Danwei.org, which was blocked since July this
year.
"It doesn't make any difference to me if the US government has a
new one. Of interest to me would be for the Chinese government not
to block (my website)."
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