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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."
Eightyford, you're grammar is showing.
"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." -Thomas Jefferson
Psiphon just plain sucks. It relies on trusted peers in uncensored countries to relay pages. The Chinese gov will simply close the port and be done with it. Nice idead, but crappy technology. Presumably these peers must be found and secured with plaintext emails - which are likely monitored. It also happens to be a great way for anonymous pedophiles to surf kiddie porn without having their IP exposed. All they have to do is impersonate web-deprived Chinese surfers.
the only reason Canada can get away with this is the US and the protection we provide.
without US influence, Canada wouldn't mean shit to anyone.
_j
ps...I don't hate Canada, just overzealously nationalistic Canadians who like to make themselves feel better by saying everything below the 49th paralell sucks.
Thank you Dave Raggett
How about not being thrown in jail or murdered for questioning the holohoax (Holocaust as it is known in to ignorant people.)
....... but this is not the case with the Holohoax Industry (aka swindle).
Everywhere, people would be pleased to research, evidence, look at past attrocities. Heck the Nanjing masacre would be great if more eyes, ears, evidence are collected.........
The truth never needed courts, gestapos, and threats to enforce. Only those who resort to lies and extortion need to resort to such tactics.
Will Slashdot SENSOR^^^^^^BEEP this, again???
whatreallyhappened.com
those inside chaina accessing this information know full well the potential consequences of breaking censorship laws, the do so as a heroic act of defiance against an opressive regime.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.