BAD IDEA OF THE WEEK: The Great Firewall of China

Therefore, Google has come up with a way to eventually render it useless: Google is encrypting searches in China in an attempt to prevent surveillance by state agencies and hackers. The search giant said that all text entered will be made indecipherable automatically, in a move that could render the "Great Firewall" - China's infamous internet censorship system - useless for tracing the activity of Google users. Encryption will prevent government censors from detecting when users enter sensitive search terms, such as "Tiananmen Square", but China could still choose to block the search engine altogether. When that happens, there is the possibility that another search engine will come to the rescue with the encryption technology, and China will have to block that site as well. Then from that point, China and western search engines will have to keep fighting the good fight until one side gives up.