Kludge
08-16-2011, 03:44 AM
China's Great FireWall may have been able to partially block out the Tor network, but a man named J. Alex Halderman has stepped up efforts by developing a service called Telex. Telex is the latest anti-censorship tool in the masses' arsenal against gov't censorship. Basically, it uses an encrypted connection to secretly route users to censored websites while snoops only detect the user accessing non-banned websites. Private ISPs must permit this service, which could only happen with particularly daring ISPs - but if they do, inside the encrypted page request is an alternate request for the censored website the user actually wants to visit. This encrypted hidden request is only viewable by Telex services, disallowing gov't snoops from figuring out what the user is actually accessing.
Currently, Telex is not ready to release, but has been tested successfully in China to access sites normally censored.
On top of that ambitious service, many Chinese and other net activists have been putting together systems of mirrors to... mirror websites and topics censored by government. Sites linking to mirrors' content are safe* as they aren't hosting the website, allowing users to go through massive lists of constantly-changing mirrors to find what they're looking for.
Short Telex/Mirror article: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110815/03054815523/as-governments-get-censorship-happy-new-technologies-popping-up-to-route-around-that.shtml
Telex main page with infographics: https://telex.cc/
Streisand.me, site in construction hosting banned information and links to mirrors containing banned information: http://streisand.me/
Another website including a simple app to test Wikileaks mirrors for accessibility: http://www.bortzmeyer.org/testing-wikileaks.html
As government increasingly disrespects individuals' rights, individuals will increasingly disrespect government's rules. Gov't oppression is counter-productive. Taxes and regulations leads to black markets, gov't censorship leads to extreme freedom of information, gov't violence leads to violence against gov't. Libertarianism will expand with the State, simply because we're right.
Currently, Telex is not ready to release, but has been tested successfully in China to access sites normally censored.
On top of that ambitious service, many Chinese and other net activists have been putting together systems of mirrors to... mirror websites and topics censored by government. Sites linking to mirrors' content are safe* as they aren't hosting the website, allowing users to go through massive lists of constantly-changing mirrors to find what they're looking for.
Short Telex/Mirror article: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110815/03054815523/as-governments-get-censorship-happy-new-technologies-popping-up-to-route-around-that.shtml
Telex main page with infographics: https://telex.cc/
Streisand.me, site in construction hosting banned information and links to mirrors containing banned information: http://streisand.me/
Another website including a simple app to test Wikileaks mirrors for accessibility: http://www.bortzmeyer.org/testing-wikileaks.html
As government increasingly disrespects individuals' rights, individuals will increasingly disrespect government's rules. Gov't oppression is counter-productive. Taxes and regulations leads to black markets, gov't censorship leads to extreme freedom of information, gov't violence leads to violence against gov't. Libertarianism will expand with the State, simply because we're right.