Internet Censorship
Internet Censorship is a tricky thing, I think mostly due to peoples attitude toward censorship. You’re either for it or against it.
Don't these guys look tough
The internet was originally conceived as a computer network that would be able to continue operating while sustaining damage that might occur in a nuclear war.
Initial work on the internet was started in the late 1960′s and since then things have gotten more sophisticated with various ways to attack and defend. I like the words “Network Security”, they seems to imply everything needed to ensure that your communications go through as intended.
Censorship can be viewed as a form of damage. Internet technologies have sprung up to prevent that this type of damage. There is an ongoing battle between the censors and the anti-censors. Today I bumped into an article here that refers to a new technology that promises another tool for the anti-censors. If that link goes down here is a link to a page of one of the authors of the technology. If that link goes down you can just do a search for his name “J. Alex Halderman”. And if that link also goes down then it means the sensors, oops I meant censors, have won the battle.
And finally here is a quote from Alex’s blog…
“I’m pleased to announce a research result that Eric Wustrow, Scott Wolchok, Ian Goldberg, and I have been working on for the past 18 months: Telex, a new approach to circumventing state-level Internet censorship. Telex is markedly different from past anticensorship efforts, and we believe it has the potential to shift the balance of power in the censorship arms race.”
Read more at his blog, he has an easy to understand description of the problem and solution…
