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50,000 Users Test New Anti-Censorship Tool TapDance (www.cbc.ca)
The CBC reports:
What if circumventing censorship didn't rely on some app or service provider that would eventually get blocked but was built into the very core of the internet itself? What if the routers and servers that underpin the internet -- infrastructure so important that it would be impractical to block -- could also double as one big anti-censorship tool...? After six years in development, three research groups have joined forces to conduct real-world tests.
An anonymous reader writes: Earlier this week, Professor Eric Wustrow, from the University of Colorado at Boulder, presented An ISP-Scale Deployment of TapDance at the USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet. TapDance is an anti-censorship, circumvention application based on "refraction networking" (formerly known as "decoy routing") that has been the subject of academic research for several years. Now, with integration with Psiphon, 50,000 users, a deployment that spans two ISPs, and an open source release, it seems to have graduated to the real world.
"In the long run, we absolutely do want to see refraction networking deployed at as many ISPs that are as deep in the network as possible," one of the paper's authors told the CBC. "We would love to be so deeply embedded in the core of the network that to block this tool of free communication would be cost-prohibitive for censors."
An anonymous reader writes: Earlier this week, Professor Eric Wustrow, from the University of Colorado at Boulder, presented An ISP-Scale Deployment of TapDance at the USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet. TapDance is an anti-censorship, circumvention application based on "refraction networking" (formerly known as "decoy routing") that has been the subject of academic research for several years. Now, with integration with Psiphon, 50,000 users, a deployment that spans two ISPs, and an open source release, it seems to have graduated to the real world.
"In the long run, we absolutely do want to see refraction networking deployed at as many ISPs that are as deep in the network as possible," one of the paper's authors told the CBC. "We would love to be so deeply embedded in the core of the network that to block this tool of free communication would be cost-prohibitive for censors."
With Google, Facebook, Twitter and Cloudfare all deciding they get to be the worlds nannies this may just what the doctor ordered.
All we need is a net that interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. And a catchy name - for this interconnected network of computers.
Will this stop the government censoring creimer's affiliate links?
See subject: It's what I believe in. No matter who you are/what your views are you have the right to speak (especially if you back it w/ fact. Not just "relative truths" but absolute hard fact). It's up to others to listen (or not) but if "a truncheon is used in lieu of conversation" we have a problem.
APK
P.S.=> A truly VERY serious problem that subverts 1 of this nation's fundamental values & rights... apk
As described in the article, it seems like this might be ripe for abuse as a hard-to-block DDOS tool. How would that be prevented?
#DeleteChrome
Those would be my bets.
Also restricting it to censored nations only, so the intiating ip has to be from a heavily firewalled region.
This is tailor made for all the worms of the 90s refined with special struxnet extensions.
Nazi content just isn't that important really. I'm sure this will be put to better use than that crap.
They want an ISP-based system, but TFA does not makes clear that there are some ISP willing to implement the idea.
One problem I foresee is that there seems to be no gain for a participating ISP, and most ISP are primarily driven by profit.
The technologies are already there.
The former two need more development work, since many of the obfuscation formats for networks utilizing DPI have been fingerprinted sufficiently to kill connections/flag suspected users.
The latter, vpngate, works out of the box and has rotating IP addresses and many 'volunteer' outproxies. Unlike Tor it works with both TCP and UDP, doesn't support port forwarding (limiting p2p apps running through it to client-only modes.)
I2P supports both stream and datagram style packets, can tunnel either over the other, with the streaming mode offering a performance penalty, and only has a single http outproxy enabled by default, although it could in theory support TCP+UDP outproxying if someone wrote the socks5 support for it.
In other news, Google has delisted TapDance from it's search results and removed their servers from the DNS. A press release on this new Google initiative to establish freedom from hate is expected soon.
What they are failing to recognize is that repressive governments can dictate what people can and cannot run on a server within their own borders. You can argue they can use servers outside their borders but that's just likely to cause them to completely segment their chunk of the internet.
The real-world result of this tool is going to be enabling individuals that were banned from various sites for ToS violations to continue spreading hate/spam on those sites.
It's good in concept but the reality is the $5 wrench will win.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Refraction networking certainly makes it very difficult but not impossible to intercept comms. Would it not be possible to 'mandate' the use of a govt-sponsored root certificate on browsers? They could then do man-in-the-middle decryption at the router level. This would require a massive effort, but then the Great Firewall is pretty massive.
I am not a robot. I am a unicorn.
How is this better than FreeNet?
https://freenetproject.org/
Nazi faggots get shot, nobody even cares.
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...so this means that people like the KKK and white supremacists can finally avoid being censored?
That's good, right?
-Styopa
Down under we're busy blocking more torrent sites - like that ever worked in stopping piracy...
http://www.news.com.au/technol...
EXACTLY.
I am amazed at the number of people that think they can take free speech away from someone without destroying it for everyone.
It's like they stopped teaching civics entirely.
The counter protesters are EXACTLY as entitled to march as the protestors. Even in the same place. It's free speech for everyone. E.V.E.R.Y.O.N.E.
The only acceptable counter to free speech is MORE, BETTER free speech.
Being outnumbered is not being censored. It is only showing you that you have a minority opinion.
The alt reich carried guns and surrounded and intimidated groups of counter protestors, are you as willing to call that anti-first amendment action? Because that CLEARLY was with armed protesters isolating unarmed counter protestors...
Finds new ways around social media censorship and SJW bans.
If the activist big brands want to remake the www, the internet will just find new services and methods of moving new content and data around.
The more social media and big search engines ban words, thoughts, authors, publications, politics, reviews, comments, users, blasphemy, history, whistleblowers, cryptography the more people seek new networks that support freedom of speech.
The users now have the bandwidth to move text around globally.
Having to go to some portal on a 28.8 modem to get information to download is the past.
People can publish their own content and text now. Then they will do video. Video content that does have a big brand SJW correcting search results.
A new generation of search engines will search the net again for content rather than filter smaller sets of SJW approved content.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Whoever uses it is suspect.
Punch a "leftist" for Lenin!
Well the claim was arrest and not about going to trial.
I haven't worked for them directly, but I'd be happy to work for ether.
How will the Left cope if people who disagree with them are actually allowed to speak out against their policies? Oh, the humanity... This sounds like the best thing that has ever happened to the internet - a way to stop all the evil little LEFT wing censors. (Funny how they're always Left wing, isn't it...)
TFA: "The user's circumvention software tags this innocuous request with a little extra data — basically a secret flag the censor can't see that says "Hey, I actually want this request to go somewhere else.""
Secret flag? That sure sounds really a bullet proof method from the 80's. I'd like to know more details of it. It can't be fixed to anything, because investigating the packet payload is trivial and dropping all the unnecessary headers is also easy. Censors can see every byte you send, so hiding in the plain sight is difficult. Specially if the censors can install the same software, then run it side by side with regular web browser and just run "diff" between the two identical flows trying to access the same site. Not only they will discover where the user is going but who has that software installed.
as its able to uncensor , once its there you can easily retool for blooking and censorship
the goal like hte early internet let em run a few years get everyone on board then pullthe plug when everyone cant not use it
you'd not know a real nazi if they had it stamped on your gay confused ,non gay, breasted, non breasted faggot head , with a penis in your hand mouth and ass
See subject: They're entitled to free speech allowed to U.S. citizenry & I may not agree w/ 'em but they have the right nevertheless... regardless of their views.
* I hope you understand that now... & yes, whether you (or I) like it or not, they have that right. It's what makes the USA, in part, the greatest nation!
(Yes, even nazi party members here in the USA do)\
APK
P.S.=> Mind you, you do NOT have to even listen to them OR you can conversely do your best to prove them wrong, via facts of course - you have the right to either course on YOUR part too... apk
See subject & attempts @ dividing us are being orchestrated by George Soros funding groups like antifa/blm etc. https://www.infowars.com/bombshell-connection-between-charlottesville-soros-cia/
APK
P.S.=> That guy is the problem... apk