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."

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Re:Another weapon in the censorship arms race

[Anonymous Coward]

You know what's going to happen? When someone gets caught using this, all their friends and family are going to immediately be under suspicion and interrogated. Well, just like the old days, but now they might actually get useful information out of it.