January 31, 2007
Do your part against tyranny
This, as it turns out, is relatively easy. Install Circumventer on your home computer and just leave it on most of the time. It's as easy as that.
Circumventer is just a Perl script which sets up your computer as a proxy that people operating behind internet filters may connect to sites that would otherwise be blocked. It works by generating a URL you can enter into any computer to connect to the computer on which you installed Circumventer, which will forward your connections from there to the site of your choice. Your server sees that you're opening a connection to your home computer; it knows nothing of what happens to the connection after that.
Lest you think that this is just a way of aiding kids in looking at naughty pictures, consider that current estimates place something like two billion people behind active, state-run censorious firewalls: China as well as pretty much the entire Islamic world. Granted, most of them don't use the internet, but hundreds of millions do. This is one of the most effective ways that we, as individual citizens can do to defeat despotic, reactionary governments abroad.
Install it today.
As an added bonus, if you install it on your computer at home, you can browse fun sites at work without hitting the filters most corporations install.
