Little about Austin Heap's first online venture, a site hosting free episodes of the cartoon "South Park," suggested he would one day use his computer skills to challenge a government. But for the past few days, Heap, an IT director in San Francisco, has been on the virtual front lines of the crisis in Iran, helping people there protest the presidential election, which opponents of the incumbent regime maintain was fraudulent. Heap's weapon in the past few days was the proxy server, a computer configured to act as an intermediary between a computer user and the Internet. Such servers have many legitimate functions, such as speeding response times, and some illegitimate ones, such as helping spammers hide their identities. What interested Heap was the use of a proxy server to bypass censorship. Properly configured, a proxy server could identify Web surfers in Iran and route them to Twitter and other sites the government had restricted. People around the world were posting network addresses for such proxies on Twitter and elsewhere, Heap said, but there was no organization and the servers were unpredictable.
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Another voice...
by Anonymous Ieani (not verified) on Sat Jul 04, 2009 02:30 PM PDTFrom the prestigious Nature:
//www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7251/fu...
The only ones who are indifferent towards iranians are regime's islamists; the only ones who are against grass root iranians long for freedom are islamic republicans and leaders of IRI, likes of that Ugly Monkey Nejad and his Said Ali Rahbar.
Buyer beware...
by Ostaad on Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:33 AM PDTAs much as I admire the Internet and the all other social networking technologies that use it, I must say people need to be careful when using the proxy servers and the software (the agent) they need to install on their own computers in order to access the proxy servers. People may be able to "hide" their identities and bypass filters, but they can ALWAYS be tracked.
I want to point out two issues about using proxies (anoymizers):
DON'T TAKE CANDY FROM STRANGERS!!!
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by rosie is roxy is roshan on Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:04 AM PDTfrom SF Chronicle four days previously.
//www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/30/ED4318FMT4.DTL