该产品适用于“移动运营网络及未来的 3G 网络、政府网站、门户网站等”；支持并帮助“移动运营网络及未来的 3G 网络、政府网站、门户网站等” 对“手机用户通过移动通信网” 上传的图像进行智能识别，阻断了淫秽色情图像 / 视频等有害信息的传播，创建了一个绿色网络环境。
该产品解决了移动通信网上手机用户上传或下载的有害信息的智能识别过滤，以及人工识别速度低、识别标准不统一的难题，有效地堵截了淫秽色情等有害信息的传播，为运营的 3G 通信能健康上网提供了有力的技术手段。
该产品在 2007 年 9 月成功安装在中国联通北京大区运行，并取得显著效果。该系统 WAP 网络的监测中， 3 个小时的图像流量达 4 万张，人工是无法跟踪和判别的；金惠的图像处理技术应用后，在 4 万张图像中迅速监测出 10 ％的疑似色情图像，特别淫秽的有近 2000 幅并完全拦截，保证了 WAP 网络的洁净。
1.炒作“阿坝州防震减灾局平息地震误传事件”的信息；
2.攻击地震部门隐瞒地震预报的信息；
3.妄议地震原因与三峡工程、岷江上游水利工程有关的信息；
4.指责地震灾区学校建筑为豆腐渣工程的信息；
5.将地震与奥运会联系，煽动抵制奥运会的信息；
6.有关地震的各种迷信说法和猜测；
7.有关四川紫坪铺水库危险、余震向东北方向移动等各种地震谣言。
一旦发现以上七类有害信息,将在第一时间及时删除,也不另行通知作者本人。
处理决定：
会员：笑呵呵 上级网管机构直接点名此会员发布关于奥运和地震等具有误导性的帖子并在论坛转帖大量的门户新闻的游客评论。我们删除了笑呵呵会员的所有帖子，并且进行永久禁言处理。并将此会员的所有登陆时间以及登陆IP等进行了备案，等待进一步的通知是否提交此会员的资料！
来源：维权网
互联网时代，BBS、Blog、即时通讯、Email（电子邮件）越来越称为人们日常生活、交 流、联系的重要方式，其中尤以Email（电子邮件）应用广泛。而Email（电子邮件）的安全问题可能常常为使用者所忽略，尤其在中国大陆当前社会背 景、新闻舆论环境下，Email（电子邮件）的安全问题尤为普遍和严重。维权人士、异见人士、社会活跃人士及普通公民，都会遭遇统治集团的干扰和监控。最 典型的便是师涛案：2004年12月，雅虎香港控股公司应中国警方的要求，提供了中国湖南商报记者师涛的Email（电子邮件）账号。随后，师涛被以泄露 国家机密罪判重刑10年。面对海内外舆论的质问和谴责，雅虎以遵守中国法律为由进行辩解。2007年11月，雅虎集团向师涛及其家属公开道歉，而受害者师 涛却仍继续付出沉重的代价。
很多网络人士在使用Email（电子邮件）时，都遭遇过邮箱密码被盗被篡改、邮件已被阅读或被莫名其妙地转发、丢失邮件等情况。那么，在日常通讯交流中，网民该怎样确保自己的Email（电子邮件）安全呢？以下是关于电邮安全的几点小知识：
1、收发邮件需加密浏览（http后加一个字母s来浏览、登陆网站）。
Yahoo、163、126、sina、sohu、gmail等电邮服务商都是商业性质的集 团，这样的公司目的是盈利，虽然它们一般是为用户提供免费电邮服务，但在其与用户的合约中有一条是公司可以使用你的邮件用于商业目的。众所周知， yahoo已经这样做过了，为自身利益而出卖用户的私人信息。所以，对盈利性质的网络服务商而言，谁也不能保证他们不会把你的信息用于商业目的。
其中，gmail相对安全一些，毕竟其服务器在中国境外，但是随着google与中国的进一步 合作，gmail邮箱也不再那么保险。因为在中国，你上网浏览的所有网页、你收发邮件的内容都在国家网络监控系统里留下印记，监控者随时都能查看每个网民 的动态，如不采取措施，网民的上网活动都会赤裸裸地暴露在网络监控系统下。所以当你在使用gmail邮箱时，应进行加密，可输入https://mail.google.com，这样你的邮件收发过程就会在加密状态下进行了，而网络监控系统就无法看到你的内容了。但是这也不是绝对安全的，收发你邮件的朋友也必须使用gmail邮箱，并在加密状态下活动，这样才能保证双方都不会泄露邮件内容。
2、选择合适的电邮服务商。
以上提到商业性质的网络服务商并不能保证用户的信息安全，一些非盈利的网络服务商是能保证用户信息安全的。比如，www.riseup.net；www.hushmail.com；www.vaultetsoft.com；www.bluebottle.com；www.fastmail.fm；www.safe-mail.net。 在这里要推荐的是riseup，它比gmail要安全，当然使用riseup邮箱也需要用户与其联系用户之间同时使用，这样才能达到邮件内容安全不被外泄 的效果；否则，只有你一方使用riseup邮箱，而对方使用的是Yahoo或者sina等邮箱，虽然邮件内容在你这里是加密状态的，但是当你的朋友在非加 密状态下收到时，你的邮件内容还是会被网络监控系统发现。
所以，建议广大网民使用riseup邮箱。gmail邮箱要在加密状态下使用https://mail.google.com。为了安全起见，中国境内的那些电子邮件服务商的产品像sina、163、126、sohu邮箱等最好不要使用。
3、通行密码非常重要。
Email（电子邮件）的通行密码是最重要的，一般密码不得低于8位，而且不能是纯数字、纯字 母，这样简单的密码是很容易被破译的。密码位数越长，被破译的几率越小。最安全的密码需要数字、大小写字母、各种字符混合组成，如12ABde#*89。 或许你的电脑也需要设置这样的开机密码，以防你离开电脑时其他人趁虚而入。
如果把你的名字、生日、相关城市及在英文词典能找到的单词设为密码，是不安全的。一个攻击者会 首先了解你的个人信息，生日、家乡等信息；或是查找词典里的词，这种情况用程序来排序查到你的密码的几率也很高。而数字、大小写字母、符号的随机组合是最 不容易被破解的。即使你的密码设置的非常复杂，也需至少每六个月更换一次。而且最好不要将你的邮箱、msn、skype等即时通讯的密码设为同一个，那样 的话，一个被破译则其他的通讯方式的密码也就同时被破译了。
4、千万不要让电脑记住你的通行密码。
网民在每次登陆Email（电子邮件）时，电脑总是提示是否需要记住该密码，请在登陆前选择不要记住。千万不要为了偷懒或者方便下次直接进入，而让电脑记住你的通行密码，这是很不安全的。电脑如果被攻击或监控，你的电邮密码将丢失，他人将轻易进入你的电邮。
还有最好不要查阅陌生人发来的邮件，尤其是附件，以免打开携带病毒的破坏性文件。
A common way to access such blogs is to go through a Web-based proxy service, or use a collection of proxy/anonymizer programs such as Tor. Though these are well and good, the following method will allow you a much quicker access time - as rather than bouncing around the globe through a proxy service, this simply slips a non-blocked IP in place of the blocked one. That's cool, trust us.
function FindProxyForURL(url,host){
if(dnsDomainIs(host, ".blogspot.com")){
return "PROXY 72.14.219.190:80";
}
if(dnsDomainIs(host, ".wordpress.com")){
return "PROXY 72.232.101.41:80";
}
return "DIRECT";
} Instructions for different browsers vary. We can't include instructions for all, but here's how to do it for Firefox and Internet Explorer - if you use an alternative to these, you should be able to adapt this method to your browser without too much trouble.
This hack also works on computers running the Mac OS. Simply follow the above PC instructions, changing the path to the proxy.pac file. For instance, if you have the pac file saved to your desktop the path would be file:///Users/yourname/Desktop/proxy.pac, changing "yourname" to whatever your username is.
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“买酱油”的原图
“酱油族”的恶搞作品
来源: 奇创科技发展有限公司
5月12日四川省汶川县发生7.8级地震，地震发生后，各媒体网站就此事进行了跟 踪报道，但也存在一些地区出现通过网络论坛、博客、即时通信等方式恶意发布谣言，夸大灾情，造成群众恐慌。为了确实维护社会稳定，营造良好的网络环境，现 就抗震救灾期间的网络信息内容有关要求通知如下：
各托管客户不得利用网站发布恶意炒作、煽动和预测地震信息等谣言性信息；
不得发布攻击奥运会及其他有害信息；
不得为托管主机和虚拟空间为有害信息提供网上传播场所和渠道；
不得为网络支付平台、手机代收费和网络广告提供非法牟利渠道；
不得为网站刊载诈骗、赌博和销售违禁品等有害信息。
为贯彻落实此次工作，请各客户／合作伙伴马上组织落实业务信息内容的自查自纠行动，建立及时有效的巡查和处理机制。加强信息内容监测，一旦发现含有恶意炒作、煽动和预测地震信息等谣言性信息等要坚决进行封堵和删除或暂停接入。
奇创科技发展有限公司
2008年5月20日
今天，我要介绍给同学们的是来自路易威登和家乐福超市的故乡——法（四声）国的威批恩来打通这面伟大的墙。
首先，什么是威批恩呢？这个需要同学们自己动手谷歌百度雅虎或者查看全面但是根本讲不到重点的百度百科。
重点是什么？重点就是这个威批恩可以拿来翻墙！这就是我们所需要的！
你可以看到一些闻所未闻的东西！比如说Blogspot! 比如说Wikipedia! 再比如说Playboy和Penthouse! （囧……其实后两个并没有被挡在墙外，这是为什么呢……）
做法很简单，访问http://www.linkideo.com/, 点"Sign Up"注册帐号，选择免费帐户（128k/s+web only, 有国际信用卡的大牛花点欧元注册Pro帐户也无所谓……），然后按照提示建立一个虚拟拨号连接（WinXP系统和建立宽带拨号连接的方法近似，另有WinVista和MacOSX的说明，不过暂无linux系统介绍，有段youtube视频介绍请点击这里），注意在输入公司名称之后要选择“不拨初始链接”，这点网站的提示中没有提到。连接建立完成后输入你刚刚注册的用户名和密码，然后，
然后你就在墙外了啊！
网页浏览速度和稳定性均属一流，你还能要求什么呢？对了，这个威批恩不支持https链接，别的无所谓，不过据称桌面版的Gtalk没法使用了……
好了，今天的课上到这里，希望各位同学在低调翻墙的同时不忘继续尽力支援地件掺着洗衣粉放在红色小塑料桶浸泡，现在应该把它们一起收进屋里，虽然还带点潮。提上裤子，光着上身直去厨房，厨房真震灾区，谢谢大家！
我也要嘗試心情圖了：
本文用了一些黑话，来躲避“鸡.恶妇.打不溜”，请自行把发音转换为英文。该词来自火星蜥蜴馆。
嘛叫威批恩（V P N）？这里是故意这样写的，所谓 V P N，请自行问 Google 老师。大家只要知道主要用途是“川墙”就行啦。
linkideo.com 提供免费的威批恩服务，只需注册一个帐户，注册过程就是填写 email 和密码而已，然后用系统自带的拨号功能就可以连接。具体设置步骤请看官方的图文教程，大家只要看图操作就行了，反正中英文系统的配置选项只是文字不同，位置是一样的。
注意，在输入“公司名”的步骤之后，有一个选项是官方教程所没有的，只需要选择“不拨初始连接”点击下一步，再继续按照教程做。
最后双击桌面上刚刚建立的快捷方式，然后输入前面注册的用户名和密码，点击“连接”就可以享受威批恩了。连接成功的一瞬间会断线，因为连接已经切换到威批恩了。
这个威批恩是法国 IP，速度我测试了一下还不错，而且目前很稳定，本文来源—— 已经无法访问，威批恩也一样，不过很奇怪，可以看见原文的标题，一瞬间就 Connection Interrupted——作者“ 虚拟私人戴耳钉的猫”用了 7 个多小时都不断线。用 QQ 的朋友要注意了，QQ断线后，重新登录可能会出现要你输入验证码的对话框。
瑕疵：不支持 https 链接，也就是 Gtalk 和 Gmail 之类用 https 连接的都不能上了，要用代理。都威批恩了还再加个代理。@_@
这个拿来川墙就行了，再折腾下去都折腾傻了。
There has been a tremendous outpouring of energy from the blogosphere and on Twitter to determine the best way to help out. Having given to relief organizations after the Indonesia tsunami, and then hearing about the waste associated with relief efforts, I wanted to evaluate how to best contribute toward China earthquake disaster relief efforts. Please add comments and links and I will keep this post updated.
Related posts:
I. Red Cross and various conduits
“With how much media attention is given, [people believe there will be] lot less graft than in the past. This is unprecedented media coverage in China,” said Bill. “We are watching the evolution of the Chinese government before our eyes. Ideally, so much coverage and press will provide less opportunity for graft” and more funds reach the victims.
CNReviews believes that the unprecendented press coverage, including that of the state agencies, is helping people overcome fears that their funds will be misused. There is some discussion that international aid agencies believe the Chinese crisis is being relatively well handled compared to Myanmar such that they should shift their focus to Myanmar.
1. Red Cross Society of China
Details on Shanghaiist, Reuters (h/t @Chinafubar), China Crossroads, and Alibaba (EN):
1.5 Chinese Red Cross Foundation (in Chinese)
Details on IfGoGo.com
2. Red Cross Society of China Chengdu City
3. American Red Cross
CNReviews interview with Christy Feig, Director of International Communications, American Red Cross, 5/13.
Post is coming soon. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
Q: Is there a way to make a directed donation toward China specifically?
A: Yes. If you would like to designate your donation to the earthquake please visit our website at www.redcross.org or call 1-800 RED CROSS. If you would prefer to donate to all our international disaster response, the option of giving to the International Response Fund is also available.
Q: Does 100% of funds donated pass to the Red Cross Society of China?
A: The American Red Cross takes donor intent very seriously. As a policy, no more than 9% of donated money is used for management expenses…the rest goes toward the designation.
Based on my interview, I feel comfortable donating to the American Red Cross with a specific designation to China. For more info, go to the American Red Cross website.
4. Canadian Red Cross (h/t China Web 2.0 blog)
A separate fund has been established for the China earthquake, according to China Web 2.0 blog.
4.5 Hong Kong Red Cross (h/t IfGoGo.com Donation Guide)
5. Jet Li One Foundation (Outside China)
From China Web 2.0 blog:
You can make donation via Paypal to Jet Li One Foundation, a charity foundation by Kung Fu movie star Jet Li. The donations will goes to Red Cross Society of China. The page is all in Chinese, but I think you can find the Paypal button on the right. But it seems you cannot specify the donation is special for earthquake when paying through Paypal
6. Jet Li One Foundation (Inside China) (h/t China Web 2.0 blog)
II. Other Aid Organizations
7. China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA) or China Fupin Foundation
中国扶贫基金会 (Beijing)
Donate RMB
* Account Name: 中国扶贫基金会
* Account Number: 8145-11681908091001
* Bank Name and Banch: 中国银行北京科技会展中心支行
Donate Clothes and Food, etc
* Address: Floor 5, South Building, Shuangyuxili, Haidian, Beijing |北京市海淀区双榆树西里36号南楼五层
* Tel: 010-62655199
* Working hour: 8:30am - 9pm
8. Shanghai Charity Foundation
上海慈善基金会
website: http://scf.88547.com/home/
Donate RMB
* Account Name: 上海市慈善基金会
* Account Number: 033351-00043984343
* Bank Name and Banch: 农行黄浦区陆家浜路支行
Donate Clothes and Food, etc
* SCF HQ: Floor 6, 88 Zhiizaoju Rd. 制造局路88号6楼 |62584343、63124091
* SCF Logistics Center (Puxi): No. 164, # 405 Lane, Zhengning Rd.| 镇宁路405弄164号 52394294
* SCF Logistics Center (Pudong): 2795 Middle Yanggao Rd |杨高中路2795号 62124343
* SCF Education Aid Dept: 80 Shanxibei Rd.| 陕西北路80号 62560695
Working hour: 9am - 9pm (Monday - Sunday)
9. China Women Development Foundation (with Sohu.com)
中国妇女发展基金会
Website: http://www.cwdf.org.cn
Donate RMB or foreign currencies via bank transfer。
The foundation will mail you the receipt afterwards. And the report (in Chinese) also says the donation is tax-refundable. But the detail process didn’t include.
10. China Children & Teenagers Fund (CCTF, 中国少年儿童基金会)
Website: http://www.cctf.org.cn/English/index.htm
CCTF has formed a charity foundation for earthquak relief with with China Merchant Bank (CMB). Source from Sohu.
You might also find regular international donation information to CCTF here with SWIF code.
11. World Vision
Through World Vision, I’ve sponsored one child in Tanzania for 10+ years, and one child in Kenya for 1+ years, so I know World Vision well.
Interviewed Jeff Wright, Sr. Program Officer for Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs, 5/13
Blog post coming soon, but here’s a quick synopsis:
12. Care for Children (CFC)
China consultancy Dezan Shira has been supporting this organization (h/t This is China! blog). On the Dezan Shira blog, China Briefing, they write:
CFC works with the Sichuan and Chengdu Civil Affairs government for disadvantaged children in: Chengdu, Guangyuan, Deyang, Zamtang, Maoxian, Neijiang, Zigong, Bazhong, Mianyang and Yibin in Sichuan Province in addition to Chongqing City.
On this difficult occasion we would like to ask our subscribers, readers, and other members of the China blogging and business community to rally together and show their support of the Chinese children caught up in this disaster by making a donation, no matter how large or small, to CFC in assistance of their regional work. All money raised will be directed to support children and their families affected by the earthquake.
earthquake appeal: http://www.careforchildren.com.cn/appeal/
13. PledgeBank challenge (h/t Rconversation)
Rebecca MacKinnon (at Rconversation) is challenging people via Facebook and Twitter to sign her PledgeBank to commit to giving. I signed up for this. Here’s what she recommends:
14. Global Giving (h/t ChristineLu.com)
Global Giving is a 501(c)3 tax-deductable organization that highlights vetted projects.
15. Mercy Corps (listed in Global Giving, IfGoGo.com)
16. Half the Sky Foundation
III. Other Sources
Richard Brubaker’s China Crossroads blog lists a number of other options. I added links and tried to conform names to the official names (but might have guessed wrong):
Short Term:
Long term (Chinese organizations):
Long term (International organizations):
22. Donating via China Mobile (Inside China)
According to the Mukokuseki blog (@Papajohn):
One of my coworkers sent a fast and easy way to donate money to the relief efforts ongoing in Sichuan province. If you have a China Mobile phone, just text a number between 1 and 30 to 10699988, and the corresponding amount will be deducted from your China Mobile account balance and donated. I just tried it and got this message in response:
成功捐款30元。感谢您对地震灾区奉献爱心，我们相信爱心将驱走灾难带来的黑暗，使他们迅速从废墟中勇敢地重新站立起来。询01065630527。
It’s nice to see ubiquitous technology put to work for a good cause.
23. Isaac Mao
Isaac is working on identifying an NGO to support. More on this later.
24. Douban: 目前为止所有捐助方式汇总
More donor resources here
25. Contribute to Red Cross via Yeepay (inside China)
26. Doron Vermaat of NewChinaCareer.com
We have uploaded several banners to the homepage of NewChinaCareer asking our visitors to support emergency relief efforts to help those affected by this earthquake. We currently link these banners directly to the donation form of the Red Cross website: American Red Cross China Earthquake relief fund.
IfGoGo.com Donation Guide
The blogging team at IfGoGo.com has also listed many other options. I’ve integrated their suggestions above wherever possible. Here are some more suggestions from them:
27. Chinese Consulate in New York (for US givers)
28. China Charity Foundation
29. OxFam Hong Kong
30. Bullog via PayPal
31. MITBBS
32. Silicon Valley Tsinghua Network (on IfGoGo as SVNT)
33. 1kg.org (h/t Web 2.0 Review)
34. Library Project (h/t co-blogger @DavidFeng at CityWeekend’s Beijingologist blog)
35. Samaritan’s Purse
People’s Daily (h/t Shanghaiist) announces Franklin Graham donation:
American evangelist Franklin Graham yesterday donated 2 million yuan ($285,000) to help the victims of the Wenchuan earthquake.The CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, established by and named after his father, and the international Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse, said from Shanghai that in the days and weeks ahead, he and his organizations will do all they can to help.
36. Give2Asia / Committee of 100 Earthquake Relief Fund (h/t Cup of Cha)
Chinese Websites helping collect donations online (h/t ChinaVortex)
ChinaVortex highlights the following websites making online donations easy for Chinese:
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成都大地震后几小时，首先看到新浪的消息：
这里只有网页快照，因为不到半小时，该消息就被迅速删除了。网易的消息还在：
而过了一会，新浪又发出公告：
再看看搜狐的消息：
对比一下，搜狐的消息是不是多了一段？
“同时，针对“中国地震局刚刚发布公告称，北京时间08年05月12日14点30分左右北京局部地区发生2级轻微地震，另警告在08年05月12日晚上 22点至24点时间段北京局部地区还会有2-6级地震，望大家提前做好预防措施。”的说法，李强华批驳说：“这是假消息，中国地震局没有发布这个消息。”
新浪这条新闻刚上线的时候也是有“辟谣”这一段的，过了几分钟，我们发现这一段被删掉了，可惜没留下快照。
再过一会，新浪又发出消息：
这个消息令人愤怒。什么叫“近期不会发生破坏性地震”？
让我们看看是哪些网站转载了人民网的“谣言”吧：
这里面包括党报光明网，所谓六大门户新浪、搜狐、网易、腾讯、21cn、中国网。而“谣言”的始作俑者人民网，谁都知道他的东家是谁。如果中国地震局没有发布这个消息，它怎么可能上了人民网？
没有人能回答我们今晚北京是否会地震。国家地震局和北京地震局的网站，在今天下午双双瘫痪了。
到底是谁在造谣？看看四川省政府的辟谣吧！
再看看5月7日就已出炉的“谣言”！
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