Posted on 02/20/2006 7:56:44 PM PST by Fred
NPR features an interview today with Bennett Haselton, programmer of Circumventor software, which allows users in China to access blocked sites via a compliant machine based outside of China. When you install the software it generates a URL Chinese users can use to use your machine as a proxy for uncensored Web surfing, Haselton explained to...... Voice of America VOA-funded Circumventor software allows Chinese an endrun around censors
(Excerpt) Read more at government.zdnet.com ...
Good. Glad to hear about it.
Very cool!
HEH HEH! Now the Chinese will go ape this week!
Interesting.
Screw china. They are commies through and through. Now to fund the router for Iran.
And I'm sure google and yahoo would be more than willing to help Red china track down any who search for the software or run the openproxy.
They are commies through and through.
Meanwhile, many are looking for a good investment opportunity. I doubt this makes any sense to you whatsoever.
The most heavily censored internet connections are not in China, but in Saudi Arabia and other Islamic states. Hopefully, this program will find some use there too.
They all need a big news-server too. That will screw them up!
"When you install the software it generates a URL Chinese users can use to use your machine as a proxy for uncensored Web surfing"
Not on my computer but it does sound like a good use for the library's PC...
There is no censorship of the Web. You can either hook up and see the world, or disconnect and die.
The PRC Communists may have their unleashed dog eat their hearts.
(smiling)
Is there an active group trying to circumvent and spoil Saudi information restrictions? I would love to send them some Torahs, porno, and the Declaration of Independence.
Can't the chi-coms just block the address?,p>Also, we know the good comrades are into computer warfare, so what's to keep them from sending Virus crud back at the offending computer?
fyi
It'll be a constant game of whack-a-mole, the commies blocking new proxies as they are found, but they'll never be able to keep up with it. That is unless the URLs have something consistent in them, in which the commies can just block that pattern.
And by the time they get this under control yet another new method of circumventing censorship will be out in the wild.
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