Canadians To Douse Chinese Firewall

FrenchyinOntario writes "Researchers at a University of Toronto lab are getting ready to release a computer program called Psiphon, which will allow Internet users in free countries to help users in more restrictive countries (like China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, etc.) to access the Internet by getting past the firewalls and getting around "rubber hose cryptoanalysis" which is a drawback of other anti-firewall programs as it reveals a user's tracks if discovered by authorities. Operating through port 443, Psiphon will allow users in monitoring countries the ability to send an encrypted request for certain information, and for users in secure countries to send it back to them. The UofT's Citizen Lab hopes to debut Psiphon at the international congress of the free speech group PEN in May."

Comments

Young whipper snappers.

[coopaq]

All your wires and doohickies!

Back in my day if we wanted freedom we had to shoot someone in the face. Twice.

Now sometimes we do it for fun. -DC

Re:Young whipper snappers.

[Anonymous Coward]

Cheney? Is that you?

cool

[Kyro]

Cool! Soon I'll be able to access suicide-related content in Australia!

Re:Opressive Country to-do list

[Nataku564]

3. Never surrender.

Re:Unlikely to have much impact in practice

[Cruciform]

But, it seems that I need to communicate with someone in China first,

First you log into World of Warcraft...

The Work of the Sweat Hogs?

[eno2001]

Would it be apropos to say, "Up your nose with a rubber hose!" to China now? (Come on you 30-something Slashdotters, surely you remember Welcome Back Kotter? It was a formative experience like JJ Walker's "Dynomite!")

Re:Opressive Country to-do list

[StarvingSE]

4. Profit!

from the take-that-eh dept.

[Baricom]

I'd just like to say that I would mod samzenpus funny for the best Slashdot department in recent memory, if I were able.

Thanks for the chuckle :)

Re:Something important from Canada

[Anonymous Coward]

8: Canada - Polar Bear

Re:Reaction?

[fishmonkey]

While it makes me feel good to hear about this... won't the censoring nations have something to say about an organized and publicised effort to help their citizens break the law?

fuck them

Everyone toast the Canadians!

[SeaFox]

They are truly defenders of truth, justice, and the Ameri...

Oh, wait. we might have to revise this.

Re:Opressive Country to-do list

[zoloto]

By grapthar's hammer, you shall be avenged!

Re:Reaction?

[Soruk]

Hopefully they'll block outbound port 25, and enforce use of a smart-host, perhaps a transparent SMTP proxy. Should do something for the spam from there!