final report

STRATEGY TO FILTER AND BLOCKING TRAFFIC CREATE
BY ANTI-CENSORSHIP SOFTWARE IN LOCAL AREA NETWORK

A thesis submitted to the Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree
Master Of Science (Information Communication Technology)
Universiti Utara Malaysia

By
Kamal Harmoni Kamal Ariff

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ABSTRACT

Anti-censorship software originally develop to fight internet censorship in China. The anti-censorship software such as Ultrasurf, Freegate, Gpass, GTunnel and FirePhoenixare become popular for the stubborn user who used the internet for thier own’s purpose and disobey the poilicies . Since it is widely use by users in organisation local area network to bypass

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