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When I was in grad school my advisor was in China for a few months. Any emails where air quality was discussed seemed to end up black-holed. Similar messages us
by avidphantasm 5y ago
When I was in grad school my advisor was in China for a few months. Any emails where air quality was discussed seemed to end up black-holed. Similar messages using pig latin versions of the same phrases seemed to make it through just fine.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 5y agoSomewhat unsurprising - more interestingly, was it individual words or combinations of phrases that caught the filter? Also amusing that somewhat simple ciphers still easily defeat the Great Firewall (would ROT13 have also worked?)
- jimt1234 5y agoFunny you mention ROT13. I lived in China for a short time, and I experienced this same thing (certain email messages seemed to get /dev/null'ed), so we started ROT13'ing the messages as a joke, thinking it would never work. But it did! We never had a ROT13 email message go missing.
- avidphantasm 5y agoIt's been about 10 years, but I think simple obvious words like "pollution" or "air quality" were problems. In addition to using pig latin, I imagine you could also use oblique or florid prose to get by the filters, but that takes more time.
- charlieyu1 5y agoYou clearly don’t understand when they use “gcd” to mean Chinese Communist Party