Tag: Psiphon
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✴︎ blogCBC National report on the Citizen Lab
On March 21, 2008, the CBC National ran a feature piece on the research and development activities of the Citizen Lab, including the ONI and psiphon. There are interviews with me, and with Nart Villeneuve. You can watch the piece here. The youtube version is here And here:
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✴︎ blogBBC The World Today and CBC The World at Six
There were two radio reports about various aspects of the Citizen Lab’s research and development activities yesterday. Clark Boyd did a report about the OpenNet Initiative’s new book, Access Denied on BBC’s The World Today. I have uploaded a version of that broadcast locally here Additionally, Eli Glasner did a report on the use of…
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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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✴︎ 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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✴︎ blogpsiphon story on Al Jazeera's Listening Post (December 2006 air date)
Al Jazeera International has a great show called Listening Post hosted by Richard Gizbert. I wish we were able to see this show in Canada! Last December 2006, the Listening Post did a feature story on psiphon around the time of its public release. Thanks to the kind folks at the Listening Post we were…
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✴︎ blogCBC Dispatches Interview
CBC Dispatches invited me back to discuss Internet censorship, the state of blogging in the Middle East, and psiphon. The interview can be found HERE.
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✴︎ blogPsiphon Pstops Pcensorship
Published in NOW Magazine July 12 – 18, 2007 Toronto-developed software opens the Net to restricted surfers By DAVID SILVERBERG In Saudi Arabia, net users can’t get access to websites of opposition groups. Jordan and Bahrain both briefly banned Google Earth, citing security concerns. The Chinese government doesn’t let netizens get to the BBC site…
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✴︎ blogPsiphon User Guide – Spanish Translation
We are proud to announce the Spanish language version of the Psiphon user guide, which can be found HERE. Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Farsi, and French versions are forthcoming. (Thanks to Txitua for the translation).