Psiphon Now Available For Download

eldavojohn writes "Project Psiphon has been released for public download under the GPL. CNN has coverage of the Canadian research project that 'works by first allowing a person in a country like Canada that does not censor Internet content to set up a user name and a password for a person in a country that does — China, for example.' While this idea is certainly nothing new to Slashdot, the fact that software like Psiphon is becoming publicly available is interesting. For a quick simplified 'How it works,' Psiphon has a Flash demonstration." Not a moment too soon, apparently. China is moving to assign IDs to bloggers, to register their real identities and track their statements online.

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Re:I think this is great...

[PFI_Optix]

My first thought:

"Great. Another thing we're going to have to figure out how to block at the school. This is just what we need: another app to help middle school students surf porn sites."

Yes, it has it's legitimate humanity-improving uses, but any kid in the US who reads /. just found a better way to circumvent their schools' filters.

And do they really think China won't figure out how to stop this?