Internet Censorship Arms Race Gets New Weapon From Georgia Tech 75
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coondoggie writes "Trying to get out in front of what they call a censorship arms race, a team of researchers has come up with technology that lets users exchange messages through heavily censored networks in countries such as China and North Korea in hidden channels via user-generated content sites such as Twitter or Flickr. Researchers with the Georgia Tech School of Computer Science will demo the technology known as Collage for the first time at next month's Usenix security conference and ideally have a working package the public can download by the end of August."
Re:I don't think this really solves anything. (Score:3, Informative)
I agree with you but at least it gets people thinking in the right direction. In my opinion and in anyones opinion the main roadblock is inability to find the access points. So its not difficult for a group of friends to agree to go to a specific site at a specific time and just one of them posts the access point and now they all have it. In fact it could be put up in an IRC chat or anywhere really.
So no this doesn't really make a big difference practically speaking but it does help China to beef up their censorship now that China knows whats coming next.
Re:If it involves steganography it's useless now (Score:5, Informative)
Revolution worked far better before we even had the technology we do. In fact, technology made people lazy and unwilling to fight censorship.
Re:Darknets are the only way to go. (Score:3, Informative)
North Korea? (Score:3, Informative)
As far as I'm aware, North Korea's internet is not filtered in any way, shape or form. It's simply that only the high-ranking military elite are allowed to access it...
Blocked Sharing Site (Score:1, Informative)
This will not work as Twitter, youtube, facebook, wikipedia(used to) is blocked completely in C***a for example.
As for the censorship on the internet, the bigger problem is the access, in many parts of the world, getting an internet access is a privilege and you must supply your real name, ID, address and reason for access the internet, not to mention you must sign-on and sign-off.
The books, letters and the word of mouth are more powerful weapon as they can already bring huge wealth of information, and can spark a revolutionary thoughts(look at all the human history in the past, how people communicate, spread ideals, etc).
Re:I don't think this really solves anything. (Score:3, Informative)
"Yeah but what they want and what they'll get are two different things. I'm sure the money elites didn't want the economy to melt down but it has. Now all their plans are ruined. It's simply impossible to continue with business as usual, something will change or we will sink into a global depression and we wont get out of that until something changes."
I don't see many of them out on the street. From where I'm standing, the wealthy elite are doing just fine right now, even with the crap economy. Of course, from where I'm standing, the reason our crap economy is crap is that the wealthy elite drained the rest of us dry... we gave them everything they asked for, on the premise that it would all "trickle down", only to find that money ignores gravity.