Canada: Tool to evade Internet censorship created
The Citizen Lab, based at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, is about to release a free program supposedly capable of bypassing Web censorship. The project called Psiphon has been Beta tested since this summer, and will be launched on December 1st.
"Governments have militarized their censorship efforts to an incredible extent so we're trying to reverse some of that and restore that promise that the internet once had for unfettered access and communication," declared Ronald Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab, to the New York Times.
Psiphon works through social networking: the citizen of a censored country is granted free access to the Internet through the computer of a net user in an uncensored country. Downloading Psiphon, the "free" computer is basically transformed into a proxy server.
The connection between the two computers is encrypted, and censors will only see that the end user is in communication with another net user, without being able to see which sites are being visited.
Human rights organisation Reporters Without Borders recently released a list of 13 countries deemed “enemies of the Internet”.
Source: BBC
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