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[ NNSquad ] TIME: "Google Unveils Technology Tools for Digital Rebels"
TIME: "Google Unveils Technology Tools for Digital Rebels
http://j.mp/1a2Irq6 (Time)
The most ambitious product launch is uProxy, a new Web browser
extension that uses peer-to-peer technology to let people around the
world provide each other with a trusted Internet connection. This
product is designed to protect the Internet connection of users in,
say, Iran, from state surveillance or filtering. Google Ideas is
providing funding and technical assistance for uProxy, which was
developed by researchers at the University of Washington and Brave New
Software. "If you look at existing proxy tools today, as soon as
they're effective for dissidents, the government finds out about them
and either blocks them or infiltrates them," says Cohen. "Every
dissident we know in every repressive society has friends outside the
country whom they know and trust. What if those trusted friends could
unblock the access in those repressive societies by sharing their own
access? That was the problem we tried to solve." UProxy allows users
in the U.S. to give their trusted friends in Iran-people they might
already be emailing or chatting with-access to the open U.S. Internet.
"The user in Iran can get unfiltered access to the Internet that's
completely uncensored and will look just like it does in the U.S.,"
says Cohen. "It's completely encrypted and there's no way for the
government to detect what's happening because it just looks like voice
traffic or chat traffic. We wanted to build a proxy service that
builds on top of trusted relationships that already exist."
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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