I am posting two recent news items for the archive. The first is a brief story (with an interesting looking map) from the Financial Times on Internet censorship. The second is an older interview I did on December 1st with CNN International about psiphon. The interview has been posted on youtube here.
Psiphon User Guide
The psiphon user guide is now available for download. Thanks to the Citizen Lab team (Jane, Mike, Anton, Eugene, and Nart) for all of the hard work. Stay tuned for translated and localized versions, coming soon.
CBC Dispatches
CBC radio is currently focusing its programming around censorship, and as part of that effort I was interviewed on CBC Dispatches. My interview is archived here and the podcast can be downloaded here
Berkman Center at Harvard Lunchtime Talk and Radio Free Europe
I had the pleasure recently of giving a talk to the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, home of many friends and colleagues of the OpenNet Initiative. My talk was about securing human rights online, focusing in particular on the psiphon project.
You can see the entire talk here.
And here is a Radio Free Europe interview I did about psiphon.
Newsforge Article about Psiphon
An excellent article about psiphon in Newsforge.
As the author says, “Psiphon is not designed to solve all secure Web browsing dilemmas. Rather, it is a means by which those in uncensored countries can assist specific individuals in censored countries access blocked Web content — without placing any technical (or personal security) burden on those individuals.”
National Public Radio (NPR) "On the Media" Interview
Ecommerce and Vancouver Sun
psiphon media roundup
The psiphon launch and worldwide public release went very well. Thanks to my colleague Rafal Rohozinski at the University of Cambridge, and lead engineer Mike Hull, Anton, Eugene, Nart, Jane, Sarah, and James for working so hard and getting it out there. It has, and continues to be, a real Citizen Lab team effort. Thanks also go to the Open Society Institute for supporting this and other Citizen Lab projects; to the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy (CILP) at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto; to the Clinical Program in Cyberlaw at Harvard Law School for legal advice, especially Alex Green and Matt Lovell; to the Parsons School of Design in New York City; and to numerous beta testers around the world.
The response has been tremendous, and we appreciate all of the feedback from the (as of the time of writing) 40,000+ psiphon node administrators worldwide.
We were fortunate to receive a lot of press coverage of psiphon, not all of it accurate unfortunately but that’s not unusual. Here are a few with some clarifications:
CBC The Hour
Globe and Mail *Note that the psiphon project is not funded by the MacArthur Foundation. The OpenNet Initiative is however. It is funded by the Open Society Institute and the CILP, as noted above.
IT Business *Note it is Mike Hull, not Hall.
Canadian Press
CNN
Toronto Star
Far Eastern Economic Review essay
I wrote an essay for the Far Eastern Economic Review that can be accessed here. The article discusses some of of the analytical findings raised by the research of the OpenNet Initiative project, and discusses the potential implications of our psiphon censorship circumvention tool.
Psiphon Press Coverage
We have been fortunate to have a lot of interest in the upcoming release of our psiphon software. In an effort to archive some of the coverage, I am including some links here.
BBC
Reuters
Register UK
American Public Radio Future Tense
WIRED blogs