Internet Censorship Arms Race Gets New Weapon From Georgia Tech

coondoggie writes "Trying to get out in front of what they call a censorship arms race, a team of researchers has come up with technology that lets users exchange messages through heavily censored networks in countries such as China and North Korea in hidden channels via user-generated content sites such as Twitter or Flickr. Researchers with the Georgia Tech School of Computer Science will demo the technology known as Collage for the first time at next month's Usenix security conference and ideally have a working package the public can download by the end of August."

Comments

Re:If it involves steganography it's useless now

[bky1701]

"Censorship can only be defeated by technology."

Revolution worked far better before we even had the technology we do. In fact, technology made people lazy and unwilling to fight censorship.

North Korea?

[ShakingSpirit]

...exchange messages through heavily censored networks in countries such as China and North Korea

As far as I'm aware, North Korea's internet is not filtered in any way, shape or form. It's simply that only the high-ranking military elite are allowed to access it...