Study About Internet Censorship

The OpenNet Initiative released a report recently, saying that at least 25 countries censor Internet usage.

The story was reported in May in My Way News and the BBC. I also had a post last November on privacy and Internet censorship.

More results of the study will be published in a book from MIT Press, Access Denied, scheduled for release in November.

New Anti-Censorship Tool

A new tool to allow web surfers to evade web censorship is expected to come out this Friday. The product, Psiphon, is an open source tool for use in countries that censor web sites.

Tor Cracked And Global Sites About Privacy

There was an interesting paper from FortConsult about breaching Tor to find out user IP addresses. That sort of defeats the whole purpose of Tor. The paper, Practical Onion Hacking, came out on Packet Storm in October.

I added two more sites to my web site about Internet privacy, censorship and filtering. The two sites, Privacy International and OpenNet Initiative, monitor privacy, censorship and Internet filtering issues around the world. They caught my attention because of their global focus.

Links to the two sites can be accessed from my home page by clicking on Privacy in the left-hand navigation on the home page and then clicking on the link in the page that appears.

Chinese Internet Censors Cause E-Mail Chaos

This should come as no surprise to anyone who watches Internet censorship around the world. Chinese censors tied up e-mail last week while adjusting their surveillance system.

I've had a number of other posts on the subject.

Winter 2600 Now on Newstands

The Winter 2006-07 issue of 2600 just came out this week. It's about two weeks early, but who's complaining?

It's also a little thicker, I noticed, with a glued binding instead of the old stapled binding they've had for centuries. They also increased the price -- no big deal either -- and apologized profusely in a long explanation in the introduction. In my mind, the price increase is small, especially for information you can't get anywhere else.

Here's a sampling of the goodies in this issue:

• Wi-Fi hunting
• Bypassing DoD's SmartFilter
• Red boxing
• Getting around cable/DSL lockdowns
• Novell exploits
• Circumventing Chinese Internet censorship
• Hacking a North Korean web site

Another winning issue with great stuff. Hats off to 2600 again!