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How to Access Blocked Websites at Work or School

By soulxtc

If you're looking for a guaranteed way to visit blocked websites like YouTube, MySpace, etc. at school or at work then Psiphon may be just the program you need. There's a wide range of ways to circumnavigate the censors on your network, be it the Torpark browser, proxy servers, or anonymizers, but none are as simple and virtually guaranteed to work as is Psiphon. Developed in a basement lab at the University of Toronto, a team of political scientists, software engineers and computer-hacking activists, or ?hactivists,? collaborated to created this powerful tool to allow Internet users to circumvent censorship of the Internet. "Governments have militarized their censorship efforts to an incredible extent so we?re trying to reverse some of that and restore that promise that the Internet once had for unfettered access and communication," said Ronald Deibert, director of the University of Toronto?s Citizen Lab where Psiphon was developed.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on June 11, 2008 (boomark / email).