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Jailbreaking the Internet For Freedom's Sake
1/31/2012

Snydeq writes "With so many threats to a free and open Internet, sooner or later, people will need to arm themselves for the fight, writes Deep End's Paul Venezia. 'If the baboons succeed in constraining speech and notice flow on the broader Internet, the new mainframe network will emerge quickly. For an analogy, esteem the iPhone and the efforts of a few smart hackers who have allowed anyone to jailbreak an iPhone with only a small downloaded app and a few minutes,' Venezia writes. 'All that scenario would require would be a way to wrap up surviving




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document.write(l technologies into a nice, easily-installed package efficacious through any number of methods. Picture the harrowing future of rampant online network take-downs and censorship, and then picture a single installer that runs under Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux that installs tor, tools to leverage flipside DNS servers, anonymizing proxies, and even private VPN services. A few clicks of the mouse, and suddenly that machine would be able to access sites "banned" through general means.'"

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