Posted on 12/04/2006 11:35:02 AM PST by faq
Researchers at University of Toronto plan to introduce a software tool on Friday that aims to help people in countries that censor the World Wide Web.
Psiphon (pronounced sigh-fawn), a web-based utility, lets individuals in a country that censors the internet sign on to a server that gives them secure access to web pages anywhere, bypassing government restrictions.
Its creators plan to launch the software at the Protect The Net conference at the university's Munk Centre for International Studies, where psiphon emerged as a project of Citizenlab. Researchers at the facility examine the relationship between digital media and politics around the world.
"We're aiming at giving people access to sites like Wikipedia," a free, user-maintained online encyclopedia, and other information and news sources, Michael Hull, psiphon's lead engineer, told CBC News Online.
Citing countries such as China and Iran among some 40 countries that censor the internet, Hull said that the way in which access to information is cut off is troubling.
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BUMP!
Be more than a little ironic if it ends up being available at Wal-Mart, eh?
So the Mighty University of "The Centre of The Universe" (aka Toronto for the great unwashed masses) has finally found ANONYMIZER.COM
What a bunch of self-absorbed LIEberal wankers.
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