The Citizen Lab has released “Everyone’s Guide to Bypassing Internet Censorship (pdf)”. It was a team effort to produce the guide and I’m very pleased to have contributed to it. I’ve long argued that users can benefit from circumvention technology the most when the carefully select the technology that meets their specific needs.
The guide [...]
Media coverage of Internet censorship is usually framed through one of two lenses: The “1984″ approach overstates censorship capabilities claiming that legions of internet police monitor everything in “real time” and are just one kick away if you make the wrong click. The “technoptimist” approach understates censorship capabilities and claims that circumvention technology is proliferating [...]
September 29th 2007 
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Not fully understanding or improperly using applications that protect your privacy and allow you to bypass censorship can seriously affect your online security. A researcher recently revealed that he was able to gather sensitive data including the user names and passwords of government email accounts by snooping on the traffic of five Tor exit [...]
September 11th 2007 READ MORE 2 COMMENTS
FT has recently run a series of articles on internet censorship. Each touches on an interesting theme.
Dissidents find ingenious ways to hide digital traces
TOR can be used for both anonymity and censorship circumvention, but while “anonymous” proxies can be used for censorship circumvention they not really anonymous. A “proxy” may sheild your identity from [...]
Amnesty International is currently working with the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) to help raise awareness of internet censorship around the world. Amnesty International is launching a campaign to show that online or offline the human voice and human rights are impossible to repress.
The aim of the ONI is to document empirically patterns of Internet content filtering [...]
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