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U.S. Funds Anonymizer for Iranians

Posted by michael on from the one-hand-giveth dept.

SiliconEntity writes "British online rag The Register is reporting that the U.S. Government is funding anonymizer.com to provide anonymous browsing services to Iranians. Using U.S. funding, the company created a special version of its anonymizing proxy which has instructions in Farsi and only accepts connections from Iranian IP addresses. The service defaults to the Voice of America web site, but users can input any address and browse free of (Iranian) government censorship."

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  1. Fight the system. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could some Iranian please set up a proxy so that we can bounce back and use anonymizer for free. Thanks :-)

  2. So now I just need to ... by burgburgburg · · Score: 2, Funny
    spoof an Iranian I.P. address and convince babelfish to translate Farsi and I'm so there! Who'd imagine that GWB would pay to keep me safe from Ashcroft?

    Muwahahahahahahahaha

  3. Re:freedom as tool by phliar · · Score: 5, Funny
    Why does our government work for the freedom of others, while chipping away at ours daily?
    Well, where do you think that freedom we export comes from? It doesn't just grow on trees you know!
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  4. Holy crap... by elwoodblues16 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Holy crap, an arguably good and appropriate use of tax dollars. What is this administration coming to?

  5. privacy for US users? by cpeterso · · Score: 3, Funny


    We now need someone to create a system that lets US users tunnel INTO Iran so we can use Iran's privacy protection (funded by the US gub'mint) to protect US users from the US gub'mints warrantless TIA Big Brother spy programs.

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  6. Re:It's understandable by HeghmoH · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't understand. Are you saying that a large, democratic government that consists of hundreds of different people with different opinions, different worldviews, and different agendas might not always agree with itself or be self-consistent?! Say it ain't so!

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  7. Re:It's understandable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    love america

    What, a middle eastern country loves the US ? Whose been screwing with our foregin policy ?

  8. Re :It's understandable by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


    > I don't mind it at all...

    > I do fine it ironic and irritating, though, that our own country (US) doesn't seem to like for us to do the same...trying to pass laws where anonymity, or falsifying online id in order to hide ones identity...

    > If its good enough for US to pay for them to do it...should be open and good enough for us to use it in all our communications.

    As Jay Leno said about the US plan for Iraq (paraphrasing) -

    We're going to fix them up with fair elections, good education, and sound healthcare.

    And if it works for them we'll try it over here too.
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  9. U.S. Funds Anonymizer for Iranians by johnthorensen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Am I the only one that read this as the US starting a money-laundering organization for Iranians?

    "Funds Anonymizer", heh...

    -JT

  10. cool - maybe they'll do the same for us by Sean+Clifford · · Score: 2, Funny

    Great, maybe they'll do the same for Americans so we can surf away from the prying eyes of *our* government.

  11. Re:It's understandable by Valdrax · · Score: 4, Funny

    [W]e should be funding the fucking Americans without jobs ...

    Now, now. The current administration's new "Fucking Americans Without Jobs" initiative has been doing quite well for itself.

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  12. Re:Perhaps by saden1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    With North Korea, it's going to be a game of chess, not checkers.

    Hay, don't knock checkers! It is a thinking man's game too.

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  13. Re:Hell yeah... by mentin · · Score: 5, Funny

    After U.S. goverment approved so-called "Patriot Act" which allows it to spy what you write in your e-mails, what you read in a library, ...
    I'm waiting for Iranian goverment to fund Anonymiser for U.S. citisens so they can browse the Web anonymously without fear of being spied by U.S. goverment.

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  14. Re:It's understandable by shigelojoe · · Score: 3, Funny

    IN SOVIET RUSSIA... wait, it *was* in Soviet Russia?

    Oh crap, never mind.

  15. Re:Re :It's understandable by Nodatadj · · Score: 2, Funny

    "We're going to fix them up with fair elections, good education, and sound healthcare."

    Pity that plan was too hard, so they went for the much simpler "Blow shit up and play it by ear" plan B