Hundreds of thousands of proxies for residents of "not free countries"
A program has been created at the University of Toronto (Canada) that will allow users to bypass network filters set by governments to block access to information sources, the New York Times reports.
The psiphon program (pronounced “Sayfon”) will be officially introduced on December 1st. Its main purpose is to resist censorship on the Internet, that is, to enable citizens of “not free” states to gain access to Western websites and blogs.
“The problem is getting worse,” says Ronald Debert, director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, who developed psiphon. “What goes under the sauce of the fight against pornography or Western news agencies gradually grows into blocking access to blogs, religious sites, medical directories, and so on. Some governments have essentially banned the full use of Internet capabilities, so we are trying to return at least some of these opportunities to the residents of these countries. ”
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The principle of the program is approximately as follows. By launching psiphon, a user living in a “free country” turns his computer into an “access point”. Then a user from a “non-free country” can use the computer of a “free user” as a proxy to access the sites that are censored. Access to the computer "free user" through an encrypted connection. The program does not require installation and input of personal information. In addition to viewing sites, psiphon allows you to write posts to blogs, participate in the replenishment of Wikipedia, etc.
In “not free countries”, the program will be distributed among proxies, who will transfer it to their relatives, friends, and colleagues. Developers expect to build a social network with administrators who will provide a link to download psiphon only to those they trust.
A disadvantage of existing programs to circumvent censoring filters, they say at the Civil Laboratory, is that they are too complex for ordinary users and - equally important - can give unauthorized users unauthorized access to the local computer. In addition, these programs are not so well-known, they are quickly detected and blocked by government agencies of “not free countries”.
“Now users will have the opportunity to get access to thousands - even hundreds of thousands of proxies; such an amount is simply impossible to block, ”says Qiang Xiao, head of the China Internet Project at the University of California.
The developers of the program are employees of the Civil Laboratory, which was established in 2000 as part of the OpenNet Initiative . Since its inception, its employees have been monitoring the situation with Internet access in countries such as China, Saudi Arabia and Iran. At the moment, more than 40 countries are under their “control”.
The psiphon program (pronounced “Sayfon”) will be officially introduced on December 1st. Its main purpose is to resist censorship on the Internet, that is, to enable citizens of “not free” states to gain access to Western websites and blogs.
“The problem is getting worse,” says Ronald Debert, director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, who developed psiphon. “What goes under the sauce of the fight against pornography or Western news agencies gradually grows into blocking access to blogs, religious sites, medical directories, and so on. Some governments have essentially banned the full use of Internet capabilities, so we are trying to return at least some of these opportunities to the residents of these countries. ”
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The principle of the program is approximately as follows. By launching psiphon, a user living in a “free country” turns his computer into an “access point”. Then a user from a “non-free country” can use the computer of a “free user” as a proxy to access the sites that are censored. Access to the computer "free user" through an encrypted connection. The program does not require installation and input of personal information. In addition to viewing sites, psiphon allows you to write posts to blogs, participate in the replenishment of Wikipedia, etc.
In “not free countries”, the program will be distributed among proxies, who will transfer it to their relatives, friends, and colleagues. Developers expect to build a social network with administrators who will provide a link to download psiphon only to those they trust.
A disadvantage of existing programs to circumvent censoring filters, they say at the Civil Laboratory, is that they are too complex for ordinary users and - equally important - can give unauthorized users unauthorized access to the local computer. In addition, these programs are not so well-known, they are quickly detected and blocked by government agencies of “not free countries”.
“Now users will have the opportunity to get access to thousands - even hundreds of thousands of proxies; such an amount is simply impossible to block, ”says Qiang Xiao, head of the China Internet Project at the University of California.
The developers of the program are employees of the Civil Laboratory, which was established in 2000 as part of the OpenNet Initiative . Since its inception, its employees have been monitoring the situation with Internet access in countries such as China, Saudi Arabia and Iran. At the moment, more than 40 countries are under their “control”.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4733/
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