What happens when setting up a proxy service is as easy as running
an application and using one is as easy as typing in a url?
It means I finally get to listen to the Ashes here in Austria :-) On 27/11/06, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So it looks like some kind of GPL tunnelling service/application? Looks interesting though, specially if they make it super easy to use. It does raise a whole load of privacy questions for the user (I would suggest Tor is better in that case) and lots of questions for a broadcaster such as the BBC who uses GeoIP. What happens when setting up a proxy service is as easy as running an application and using one is as easy as typing in a url? Interesting.... :) Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk || x83965 ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard P Edwards Sent: 27 November 2006 11:53 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Psiphon Wow, I will be watching the next World Cup live on the BBC then. ;-) If this does what I think it will, then the resulting discussion will, again, have consequences for everyone. Personally, I like the idea of sharing and from this side of the Channel, the UK is a state that censors. I accept the reasons why, copyright etc..... but this will push those regulations once more. Now, I am off to find a trusted friend. :-) Thanks Mario. On 27 Nov 2006, at 10:17, Mario Menti wrote: Just stumbled upon this, and thought it may be of interest to some folks on the list: http://psiphon.civisec.org According to the front page, "psiphon is a human rights software project developed by the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies that allows citizens in uncensored countries to provide unfettered access to the Net through their home computers to friends and family members who live behind firewalls of states that censor." Mario.
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