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Warning! Geek alert! This post is about messing with the bowels of strange operating systems for arcane purposes. Intermediate knowledge of Wordpress and rudimentary knowledge of the Linux command line are assumed. If you’re here to read about ISP censorship and no-fly lists, you’ll probably want to skip this post.

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I’ll be posting more about Passenger Protect, Canada’s nascent no-fly list, in the near future, but for now, here’s a CBC article suggesting that the cost of the system — estimated at $250 million — could keep it from being implemented. (The article is in French only, alas. Here’s a reasonably coherent English-language version, courtesy of Babelfish.)