Out of all places, NOW Toronto has an interesting tech article about a software that lets people share unfettered internet access to internet-censoring countries. Spawned by the Citizen Lab of University of Toronto since December 2006, Psiphon acts as a proxy for the regulated user and provides access to an uncensored internet. Psiphonodes would be able to monitor and regulate incoming/outgoing traffic as well if they feel that the psiphonites (I swear that’s what the website calls them) are getting out of bounds of what they’re surfing on the web. One good thing about this is that Psiphon servers gets to choose who uses the service which means less people using it, thus staying pretty off the radar and avoid the fate of regular proxy servers that eventually gets shut down.
If you have relatives or friends that reside in those countries, I encourage you to try out this program and “psiphon” information freely.
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