Defeat Internet Censorship
Older article (Nov 07), but a first read for me. I'd be interested in hearing feedback on this from people who are much more active in this field than I am, and thus actually able to comment intelligently on the subject.
Defeat Internet Censorship: Overview of Advanced Technologies and Products
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....This article aims to provide a non-technical overview of the leading and most influential technologies used to circumvent Internet censorship in repressive regimes. We will also discuss the software packages that were found to be most effective in countering the blockage for endusers. Thus, this article will document the state of the art in this field, and provide practical guidance for users who need to make judicious choices of the best tools available for their protection.
We will use the censorship in China as the primary example because the most advanced censorship technologies have been deployed and tested there. The circumvention tools to defeat the censorship in China will work equally well or better in other countries......
Leveraging Technology for Peace
We have all seen numerous examples of how our foes leverage information technology to spread their message of hate and violence. There are parallel efforts to leverage the same technology to spread the message of peace and tolerance.
One example at the link below, please post others as you come across them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45SOdlIa4xs
U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors
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The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications networks.
The effort includes secretive projects to create independent cellphone networks inside foreign countries, as well as one operation out of a spy novel in a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of young entrepreneurs who look as if they could be in a garage band are fitting deceptively innocent-looking hardware into a prototype “Internet in a suitcase.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/wo...t.html?_r=1&hp