Researchers Debut Proxy-Less Anonymity Service 116
Trailrunner7 writes "As state-level censorship continues to grow in various countries around the globe in response to political dissent and social change, researchers have begun looking for news ways to help Web users get around these restrictions. Now, a group of university researchers has developed an experimental system called Telex that replaces the typical proxy architecture with a scheme that hides the fact that the users are even trying to communicate at all."
Um. excuse me? (Score:5, Insightful)
The key innovation in Telex is that it uses "stations" installed at ISPs to recognize and reroute specially tagged requests from clients trying to reach censored sites.
Oh, right... We can fully expect our friendly ISPs to go along with this nice, convenient fully centralized 'service'... Pleeeze
Proxy-less (Score:5, Insightful)
Okay, so we rename the proxy a "station" and now we can call it proxy-less?
Re:Um. excuse me? (Score:5, Insightful)
Even if they went along with this "service", all it takes is one of the Four Horsemen of the Infoclypse (as Tim May put it) to rear their ugly heads through the connection, and the ISP will either stop running the station, or make sure they have thorough logging.
Taco, whassa mattah wit you? (Score:4, Insightful)
As state-level censorship continues to grow..
FTA: Widespread ISP deployment might require incentives from governments.
Can you see the little flaw in this whole concept yet?