Psiphon anti-censor app online
p2pnet.net News:- When news of Psiphon, the Canadian anti-censorship application, broke at the beginning of the year, it was greeted with enthusiasm by the online community, especially by people in repressive countries such as China, which keeps its people under an information lock-out, still aided by the likes of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
The story didn’t, however, make much of an impression on the mainstream media.
But that changed last week when the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies said its Psiphon was ready to go. As of December 1, the software was available free under the GPL open source license as part of the Open Society Institute’s Citizen Lab CiviSec Project.
It allows people in uncensored countries to circumvent government restrictions, providing secure online access through their home computers to others behind censorship curtains,
“Unlike other circumvention technologies, Psiphon relies on multiple social networks of trust,” said Citizen Lab in February. “Psiphon does not depend on mass publication of IPs or proxies, which in turn can be easily intercepted and filtered by a determined state, but rather on ‘word of mouth’ and multiple, smaller networks of trust,” Users could include any group wanting to freely communicate over, and access information from, the Net.
Download it here. And go here for the feedback forum.
Founding Citizen Lab director is Ronald J. Deibert, associate professor of political science, and the lead Citizen Lab programmers for the Psiphon project are Nart Villeneuve and Michelle Levesque.
Also See:
beginning of the year – Canada’s approach to hactivism, February 16, 2006
ready to go – psiphon: anti-censor software, November 28, 2006
If you’re Chinese and you’re looking for a way to access independent Internet news sources, try Freegate, the DIT program written to help Chinese citizens circumvent website blocking outside of China. Download it here and feel free to copy the zip and host it yourself so others can download it.
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