Overcoming the web censorship
November 28th, 2006 
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As Etherfast was saying earlier there are some countries in which the Internet is not free. In this countries the access to the Internet is restricted in many ways and important web resources such as news and encyclopedias, online books and more are banned.
This is a serious issue given the fact that by limiting the access to knowledge and information basic human rights are violated. Given this the researchers from Citizen Lab in Toronto created a free (released under GPL open source license) software that allows users to workaround web restrictions. And that software is called Psiphon, what basically psiphon does is to create a secure HTTPS connection to a machine in the free world and that psiphon server (psiphonode) handles all the page requests of the psiphone client (psiphonite).
Psiphon is a initiative I salute and software like this might make the difference for someone who doesn’t have the good luck to browse the Internet freely.
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