GREAT news about circumventing net censors in China & elsewhere.

Hoodwinking the Censors" is at torontostar.com (This is an in depth article and is so heartening on many levels.) Edit: To note the poster below has provided a link as I can't cut and paste.

Three U of T's students expect their anti-censorship software to be out this month. They are part of CitizenLab, a hacker lab which is financed and supported by the university thanks to CitizensLab founder Prff Deibert. The system is called Psiphon and would allow people to "outwit the world's most repressive regimes".

"This group works with Harvard and Cambridge. Harvard researches legal aspects on Net censorship. Cambridge organizes activists in censored countries to do research. Toronto performs the tech research."

A Cambridge member said it was Canadian Deibert, who students refer to as Hacker Prof, who got university funding and organized this international effort. (way to go Canuckistan)


There's lots of amazing stuff in the article such as "mini black boxes that are planted inside countries to run tests, research that is illegal is almost every country they do it in."


To find out how this advanced filtering software works, please refer the article as I am unable to cut and paste.

p.s. its free to register and this article makes it definitely worthwhile.

Revenge of the nerds
Three computer geeks at the U of T are renowned developers of anti-censorship software, including a program out this month that could allow people to outwit the world's most repressive regimes
May 7, 2006. 07:16 AM
ANDREW CHUNG
STAFF REPORTER


Looking at them you might not guess it. But deep in a basement room on the University of Toronto campus, three unassuming computer hackers with messy hair and wrinkled T-shirts are working to tear down China's "Great Firewall," the most sophisticated Internet censorship system in the world.

They are self-confessed computer "geeks." They don't go to the gym much, or see much sunlight. They talk about "routers" and "nodes" and "secure socket layers" like they were saying, "Hello," or "How are you?"

But the computer smarts of Ron Deibert, Nart Villeneuve, and Michael Hull, combined with their passion for politics and free expression, have led them to develop a highly anticipated software program that allows Internet users inside China and other countries, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Burma, to get around repressive censorship and not get caught.

more:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1146865816987&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724

:hi:

Hoodwinking the censors

Revenge of the nerds

Three computer geeks at the U of T are renowned developers of anti-censorship software, including a program out this month that could allow people to outwit the world's most repressive regimes
May 7, 2006. 07:16 AM
ANDREW CHUNG
STAFF REPORTER

Looking at them you might not guess it. But deep in a basement room on the University of Toronto campus, three unassuming computer hackers with messy hair and wrinkled T-shirts are working to tear down China's "Great Firewall," the most sophisticated Internet censorship system in the world.

They are self-confessed computer "geeks." They don't go to the gym much, or see much sunlight. They talk about "routers" and "nodes" and "secure socket layers" like they were saying, "Hello," or "How are you?"

But the computer smarts of Ron Deibert, Nart Villeneuve, and Michael Hull, combined with their passion for politics and free expression, have led them to develop a highly anticipated software program that allows Internet users inside China and other countries, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Burma, to get around repressive censorship and not get caught.
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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1146865816987

Saudi Arabia? That ought to be interesting.

pnorman

Will there be offical protests. And whose side will bushco take?

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There's an old Texan saying: "DON'T trash-talk the land-lord!" --- Saudi Arabia, kuwait, People's Republic of WalMart --- you name it.

pnorman