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From Leo's mailbag:

> From: A Computer User
> Sent: June 3, 2005
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: circumventing blocked sites
>
> Leo,

> I'm moving to Myanmar next year and I've already heard
> nightmares about people there saying that almost all web
> based emails (especially hotmail and yahoo) are
> banned/scanned/blocked by the government. I'm curious as to
> how the government is able to access servers that are outside
> the country to delete files. I'm also looking for a way to
> circumvent it. I've looked at the circumventor program on
> peacefire.org but are there others?

Peacefire is where I would have sent you.

They don't need to access the servers, they just block
the ability to communicate with them. That makes them
inaccessible.

Thanks for asking!

Leo

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