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Psiphon Tool

This week, Citizen Lab released the Psiphon tool for surfing the Net “freely and securely” by having trusted friends and family members run a special version of a personal p-r-o-x-y server via SSL. Its biggest advantage is that it does not require any client software whatsoever.
I’ll post a full rundown of the tool this week. It’s an impressive accomplishment that, while not the magic silver bullet, is another excellent utility for the tool chest.

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  • 3 Responses to “Psiphon Tool”

    1. doug
      December 4th, 2006 23:18
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      This is a step up from worrying if your portal is being used to channel indecent material through the Internet.

      It’s the next big thing, like Flickr or MySpace, I think. Consumers and users will turn into “trusted sources,” and then money can really be made or at least, quantifiable relationships and reputations.

    2. The Weifang Radish
      May 6th, 2007 18:29
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      Psiphon, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Screw the Nanny…

      A new internet censorship circumvention tool called psiphon has just been released that looks quite promising. It is somewhat akin to Tor in how it works, though it looks like there are three distinct advantages to psiphon over Tor for users in China j…

    3. da82ae9c1cdc
      May 13th, 2008 09:50
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