peterl's blog

The United States government should enact legal provisions to prevent foreign governments from buying American high-tech products likely to be used to facilitate human rights violations. The following is my suggestion for products related to Internet (and telephone) censorship and surveillance.

While our tools (GPass/GTunnel/Freegate/Ultra Surf/FirePheonix) helped users in closed societies to access censored information on the Internet freely, the authorities in some places (e.g., China) found a way to block us through anti-virus scanners. They just reported our software as virus or mal-ware. Some of these anti-virus companies are not responsible enough in their classification. It seems they just labeled our software as backdoor if enough people reported us that way.

We interacted with some of these anti-virus companies (including Symantec and Kaspersky), and upon close examination of our software, they reverted their signature database. Communication records with Kaspersky Lab are attached. ...

To The Point News published an article on The China Internet Freedom Project, and GIF was mentioned. The full article is at
http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3179/87/