Psiphon: Eluding Government Web Censors

The Psiphon program was released on December 1 in response to growing Web censorship, particularly in China. The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab designed Psiphon, and it works via a person in an uncensored country downloading the program. The user who wishes to view websites and blogs in a censored country then logs in to the person in the uncensored country's computer, which with the download, acts as a virtual access proxy. Once the censored user clears the browser history, the program's designers claim there is no trace of  the user having accessed forbidden sites. The Citizen Lab is a member of the Open Net Initiative, which, when it opened in 2000, monitored China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Since then , internet filtering has increased, and now the Initiative monitors over 40 countries.