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Researchers Debut Proxy-Less Anonymity Service

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-can't-see-me dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "As state-level censorship continues to grow in various countries around the globe in response to political dissent and social change, researchers have begun looking for news ways to help Web users get around these restrictions. Now, a group of university researchers has developed an experimental system called Telex that replaces the typical proxy architecture with a scheme that hides the fact that the users are even trying to communicate at all."

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  1. Re:Subject-Verb Agreement by davidbrit2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    They are practicing hiding the fact that they're trying to communicate. Almost had me fooled, too.

  2. Re:Telex? by ribuck · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's the point of naming it Telex? ...

    I think you might have missed the point. The freedom-friendly ISP routes the connection across the near-defunct Telex network, and therefore bypasses censorship.

    Of course, the websites you browse only display upper-case characters and EBCDIC Art graphics.

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