On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Alex Balashov wrote: | Understood. I guess the angle I was going more for was: Is this actually | practical to do in a country with almost as many Internet users as the US has | people? | | I had always assumed that broad policies and ACLs work in China, but most | forms of DPI and traffic pattern analysis aren't practical simply for | computational feasibility reasons. Not unless the system were highly | distributed.
Perhaps they only need make an example of a few, and thus introduce an element of fear for everyone else.