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Tearing Down China's Great Firewall
quadsoft writes to tell us The Toronto Star has a look at three University Toronto computer geeks who are working hard to circumvent the internet censorship problems like those found in China. From the article: "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."
You're losers all the same.
Circumventing censorship in China, if needed (it rarely is), is easy, and most people know how to do it (it is spread by peer education in homes and internet cafes). No one is gonna lock you up for doing it either, so I don't know what TFA is talking about.
Now, tearing down the firewall would be the easiest thing in the world. It just requires a collaborate effort between governments in the West, or at least some powerful companies in the West, namely to host servers for distributed protocols a la Tor and similar, distributed and encrypted IM and so on.
But you won't ever see such a collaboration. I leave it as an exercise to figure out why.
For Iran... I recommend we nuke'em. It is the simplest and least painful way.
This guy is either trolling, or his e-mails were being censored by Iran and being made to look like the U.S. did it. I know for a fact that the U.S. censors no incoming or outgoing private communications, although they do listen on suspect communcations. One guy's story doesn't make it true, it is false, ask anyone who has ever worked in such scenarios.