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✴︎ blogCBC Search Engine, Nature, and Digital Nation
Some recent items on psiphon, the ONI’s new volume, Access Denied, and others to report: I did an interview with Jesse Brown of CBC’s search engine on psiphon. The full interview, including Mike Hull’s psiphon theme song, is available here (Note: The interview with me starts at 16 minutes, 15 seconds into the podcast). Bruce…
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✴︎ blogNetxplorateur Award for Psiphon at French Senate
Yesterday we at the psiphon project were delighted to be given the Grand Prix at the Netxplorateur Forum in the Senate of France. From their website: La Commission du Forum Netxplorateur a décerné son Grand Prix 2008 au professeur Ron Deibert, directeur du Citizen Lab à l’université de Toronto, pour Psiphon. Ce logiciel visant à…
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✴︎ blogAccess Denied review: IEEE Spectrum
“In the dot-com heyday of the ’90s and early 2000s…there was a myth that the Internet can’t be controlled,” says Ronald Deibert, a researcher at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab. “There was some mysterious, magical property associated with it that will route around censorship.” The most exhaustive study yet of Internet censorship—Access Denied: The…
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✴︎ blogThe Psiphon network frustrates censors by using trusted friends.
MIT Technology Review MIT Technology Review has a good story about psiphon, and in particular the new service we are slowly building up. We have not said much about this service publicly because we are working carefully and quietly to build up its capacity to serve peoples’ needs within censored countries. The article provides a…
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✴︎ blogPsiphon one of "Six Ideas that Will Change the World"
Published in Esquire Magazine Esquire has listed psiphon as one of the best and brightest ideas of 2007, and included it among the “Six Ideas That Will Change the World.” Read about it here. Thanks to Mike, Anton, Eugene, Nart and all the Citizen Labbers who have worked on the psiphon project over the years.
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✴︎ blogCBC The Current
I was a guest on CBC’s The Current on Friday. The show begins with a focus on the Yahoo case involving Wang Xiaoning and Shi Taoi who are currently serving 10 year sentences for subversion based on records Yahoo turned over to Chinese authorities. You can listen to the interview here
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✴︎ blogONI Burma Report – Pulling the Plug
The OpenNet Initiative has compiled a bulletin on the recent demonstrations in Burma and the Burmese government’s shutdown of the Internet there. ONI conducted a technical analysis of the Internet’s uptime, documenting a complete shutdown in Burma, followed by intermittent periods of up-time throughout early October, with an apparent return to full connection on October…
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✴︎ blogEveryone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide — NEW RELEASE
I am pleased to announce that we have finished the Citizen Lab’s latest output, Everyone’s Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide and also available for download here This guide, which is intended for the non-technical user, provides tips and strategies on how to by-pass content filters worldwide. It is now in English but…
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✴︎ blogIFEX, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor
I am attending the IFEX general meeting in Uruguay, where I gave an opening address on Internet censorship, the work of the OpenNet Initiative and psiphon projects. It is a very dynamic meeting, with many different rights organizations collaborating and exchanging ideas. Much of the discussion is focused on events unfolding in Burma. There was…
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✴︎ blogTVO The Agenda Interview on Burma/ONI/Psiphon
I did a one on one interview with host Steve Paikin of TVO’s the Agenda. The episode page is here, where you can downoad the video and audio podcast of the interview. We cover events in Burma, the OpenNet Initiative and psiphon.