With the rash of companies lining up to cater to the Chinese government a Canadian team is standing up for the downtrodden. The proggie written be a crew at the University of Toronto is called Psiphon. This proggie is designed to beat the filter programs put in place to incriminate users in oppressive countries. Operating through port 443, Psiphon will allow users in monitoring countries the ability to send an encrypted request for info to a computer on the “outside”, then that system can send the info back. I can’t help but think that this had a little inspiration from the Peek-a-booty project. All of the traffic will run over the same path that financial data travels.
“Unless a country wanted to cut off all connections for any financial transactions they wouldn’t be able to cut off these transmissions,” said Professor Ronald Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab.