Friday, July 07, 2006

Killing your access to Yahoo.cn

Here's a nice trick:

Do you want to kill someone’s access to Yahoo China? It’s easy – just include a hidden Iframe with a Yahoo.cn search for e.g. falun gong on a website. The user who visits that site will then still be able to access Yahoo.cn, but not be able to see any search results – including those for non-censored terms – for some amount of time (instead, there will be a message that reads “The connection was reset”).

You can reproduce this by going to Yahoo.cn, and first search for commercial words like coke (which works), then search for falun gong, then try again to search for coke (which won’t work).

I first tried to type "Arroyo" at Yahoo.cn, may lumabas. then I typed "falun gong", at hindi na lumalabas yung mga results sa yahoo.cn.

1 comment:

Jon Mariano said...

you're naughty john...