As Glyn Wintle is fond of saying: if your security depends on a blacklist, you’ve already lost. Thusly, Cryptome reports:
Access to documents containing the word “WikiLeaks” are blocked at the US National Archives website.
http://research.archives.gov/search?v%3Aproject=opa&query=WikiLeaks
The URL you requested has been blocked
The page you have requested has been blocked, because the URL is banned.
URL = research.archives.gov/search?v%3Aproject=opa&query=WikiLeaksHowever documents with the words “Wiki” and “Leak,” separated by a space, are not. Six documents with “Wiki” and “Leak” may be retrieved:
HOWEVER: it’s possible to do better than that! Whatever is filtering the search engine is not as smart as the search engine, because the search engine accepts wildcards.
Hence:
This is why censorship is a bitch to do, and why it’s an expensive road to take.
Dear everyone, you have two options:
- avoid censorship, or else
- work out and enumerate all the documents that you’ll allow people to see, so that you can whitelist them
Pick whichever option is cheapest.



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