Everyone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship

By Cory Doctorow at 7:01 am Thursday, Oct 11

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.

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.

PDF Link (Thanks, Seth!)