Rearranging the Deckchairs

Psiphon is an new anti-censorship tool that has recently become available. It is supposed to allow anyone to operate a proxy (“psiphonode”) in an uncensored country, so that users in censored countries can browse material that would otherwise be blocked. The idea is that the censoring country will find it much more difficult to identify and block access to 100s of proxies, than to do the same for the particular site it wishes to censor. The connection between the browsing user and the proxy is encrypted so that the censoring government cannot tell what is being browsed. That’s the theory, anyway.

It’s an interesting idea but I think there are a few problems with it:

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