Everyone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship
The Citizen Lab has a new anti-censorware guide, "Everyone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide." The 31-page PDF covers a lot of ground, with material for anti-censorware activists and users, and is very handsomely put together.
PDF Link (Thanks, Seth!)
Circumvention and anonymity are different. Anony- mous systems protect your identity from the website you are connecting to and from the anonymity system itself. They can be used for circumvention, but are not designed for this purpose and thus can easily be blocked. Circumvention systems are designed to get around blocking but do not protect your identity from the circumvention provider.Do not mistake open public proxies for anonymous systems - they are not. Although they may not ask for personal information, they can view and record the location of the computer from which you are connect- ing and all of the websites you visit through them. Commercial services which advertize anonymous surfing may still record your connection information and the websites you visit. Make sure you fully understand the terms and conditions of their use.
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ISPs have been keeping track of users for years. They keep a record of what account is accessing what ISP and when. They will even track an account if there's suspicion of abuse. Though they don't bother keeping track of specific activity otherwise. Still, if all the records are brought together it can be possible to figure out what someone was doing provided the user doesn't make extensive effort to hide themselves.
Funny, the boing had a topic like this a couple of days ago.
However the censorware I'm up against blocks you going to the sites that would allow you to get around them.
A catch 22 if i ever saw one.
Anyone have mirror sites for these or thoughts
Thx
This guide is a little harsh on US schools/libraries, at least in my experience. My local library has censorware, but it can easily be set to be disabled by default.
And the local ginormous state university has no blocking software at all.
I'd be interested in hearing what other people have experienced in their local libraries and schools.
Interesting guide. Minor issue for me... I don't quite see how web accelerators fit into the picture except to still provide continued access to very recently censored content. We've had some bad experiences with those in our academic environment - some of our licensed e-content providers interpret the behavior of web accelerators as "systematic downloading" which is typically a violation of our license agreements. So we get breach notices that have to be investigated etc. For a guide coming out of a major university with presumably a large college audience, I think a note of caution might be in order with routine use of web accelerators.
Adult site blocked. deibert.citizenlab.org is not allowed on this network.
This site was categorized as: proxy/anonymizer. Questions? Not an adult site?
This is what I got when i tried to get to the link
access denied on the other from last week
weak proxy by google etc. fails to work
having to use library pc till mines back
lil help on how to get over the blocks!
Blake2go: where in the world are you located?
Let me know if you still can't get to it and I'll mirror the pdf somewhere else.
cheers
Hey ZeroTails
Here in Ohio
Would love to have a way around these damn
censorware.
The stuff is so foolish, it blocks you from sites
that could do you some good, and at the same time fails to keep kids from the ones that would do them harm.
But having the ware block you from the sites that would get you around them is ............the pits!
Any help would be great!