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I2P Offers Alternative to Tor for Anti-Censorship, Online Privacy

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Tor is probably the best known all-around Internet privacy solution. But I2P, another open-source framework for secure, censor-free communications, offers many of the same features as Tor and may be better in some situations. I2P’s promise is to provide “strong privacy protections for communication over the Internet. Many activities that would risk your privacy on […]

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FireTweet Provides Easy Twitter Access in Censored Countries

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Want a quick and easy way around Internet censorship so you can access Twitter? FireTweet might be just the solution you’re looking for. FireTweet is an Android app that uses peer-to-peer networking to circumvent firewalls that block Twitter. It’s free, has no ads and requires no special setup. Once launched, FireTweet looks like a standard

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Alibi Offers User-Specified Traffic Routing to Avoid Censorship

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Most anti-censorship tools focus on getting Internet data inside countries that attempt to block it. Alibi Routing, a new system created by academic researchers in the United States, does the opposite. It lets users prevent their data from passing through certain countries in order to avoid government sniffing. When data travels across the Internet, it

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GNUnet Circumvents Censorship with Open-Source P2P Networking

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Peer-to-peer networking tools, like Lantern and uProxy, are increasingly important for circumventing Internet censorship rules. But this strategy isn’t actually very new, as GNUnet, an open source peer-to-peer connectivity tool developed since 2001, makes clear. GNUnet establishes a mesh network with no central control point. That lets users skirt traditional gateways that Internet censors could

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Psiphon Integrates VPN, SSH and HTTP Proxy to Fight Censorship

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The Web — and the Internet as a whole — is supposed to be “world wide.” But it’s not when countries censor Internet access. That’s the issue that the online privacy tool Psiphon aims to resolve. In the Psiphon developers’ own description, the platform “serves a specific and simple purpose: to grant users open access

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Lantern Provides P2P Proxy Network for Beating Internet Censorship

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Need to beat online censorship, but don’t have access to a VPN? Lantern, an open-source app that uses peer-to-peer connections to get around firewalls, may be for you. Lantern was launched by Adam Fisk, the man behind the now-defunct LimeWire file-sharing platform. Fisk said he first conceived of the idea for Lantern when working on

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“InvizBox Go” Promises Tor, VPN & HTTPS For Mobile Privacy

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Mobile privacy is crucial in an age when a majority of online activity occurs on smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. But staying private and secure while on the go also creates special challenges, which are what a new open-source, crowd-funded mobile VPN and Tor solution called InvizBox Go aims to resolve. InvizBox Go is

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Open-Source uProxy Extension Offers “Social” Private Browsing

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If you’re looking for a new way to stay private online without using Tor or traditional proxies — or if you’d like to help other people do the same — an open-source browser extension called uProxy is right up your alley. uProxy’s developers pitch it as a “social application,” designed to help people stay private

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