Slashdot Mirror
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."
'Free speech' in the USA takes place in well regulated 'free speech zones', conveniently located miles from the event or person that is being spoken about. This is not real free speach, but the end product of decades spent fetishizing the rights supposedly enshrined in the Constitution, all the while forgetting that the right to speak freely is only meaningful if it is excercised. Free speach in the USA is a joke, a sick reminder of the wool labelled 'democracy' that has been pulled over the citizens'/consumers'/cattle's eyes. And then the sheep look up...
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
What's ironic is that I go to this school, and I'm probably one of the last Slashdotters to hear of this. Oh well.
Anyone else read "Canadians To Douche Chinese Firewall" at first glance?
:)
Seriously, I need sleep. Moving sucks. Was good for a double take though
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
The US government, and all world governments for that matter, should spend a little more time focusing on their own country and leave things like this alone. Psuedo Republic politics are not the only way to succesfully run a country. Absoulte freedom, or anarchy, is only one of the viable approaches to national survival and citizens comfort. Allow the natural ebb and flow of proletariat/peseant revolt handle these things. If there are true autrocities like government sponsored slavery or molestation of inoccents then we should spend some time and effort on it. But circumventing the laws of another country just because they can't read web sites that defame their government or have access to the latest porn is just not what good governments should be doing. The kind of governmental intrusion you are calling for is why the US is so hated east of the mediteranian.
Canada now has Zap cars, which are rebranded Smart cars. Good job Canada!