28-01-2011, 11:23 AM
https://www.accessnow.org/proxy-cloud
What is the Global Proxy Cloud?
In recent years, many states have begun to block or filter Internet access. As internet traffic can be centralized at certain state-maintained points for entry into and outside of the country, it is possible for countries to monitor and censor all of their citizens' internet communications. We are concerned with usage of Internet blocking techniques to undermine or prohibit political discourse and free distribution of information and news to both citizens and the outside world.
The Global Proxy Cloud (GPC) is a tool that enables activists to harness the open, unmonitored Internet, enabling the transfer of information from and within local communities behind the firewall to each other, the international media, and the global community. The GPC benefits activists, dissidents, politically censored groups, and curious individuals in heavily censured countries. It is easy to use, with a low technical knowledge threshold to get involved. Created in partnership with the Tor Project, a non-profit devoted allowing people to protect their Internet traffic from analysis, the GPC uses tools that are well-tested, robust, and shown themselves to be capable of accessing banned websites in many different environments.
The GPC works by passing requests to host computers in other, unmonitored locations, which then pass back the requested information to the activist. As the traffic is encrypted, it is not visible to outside parties. It is a peer-to-peer network that is strengthened by the addition of hosts who donate their bandwidth to the cloud. By opening their Internet connection, volunteers increase the size and stability of the GPC, and allow it to aid more activists. The more people in closed societies who have access to the GPC, the more easily information can be spread both into and outside the censored space, and the harder it will be to identify individual users.
Technically-minded individuals can easily access circumvention tools. The GPC endeavours to widen access to these tools, and provide on-the-spot deployment to global hot spots.
How does the Global Proxy Cloud work?
Our partners
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The Tor Network
The Global Proxy Cloud is powered by the Tor network,
a non-profit devoted to allowing people to protect their Internet traffic from analysis.
To find out more about their work, please visit The Tor website.
What is the Global Proxy Cloud?
In recent years, many states have begun to block or filter Internet access. As internet traffic can be centralized at certain state-maintained points for entry into and outside of the country, it is possible for countries to monitor and censor all of their citizens' internet communications. We are concerned with usage of Internet blocking techniques to undermine or prohibit political discourse and free distribution of information and news to both citizens and the outside world.
The Global Proxy Cloud (GPC) is a tool that enables activists to harness the open, unmonitored Internet, enabling the transfer of information from and within local communities behind the firewall to each other, the international media, and the global community. The GPC benefits activists, dissidents, politically censored groups, and curious individuals in heavily censured countries. It is easy to use, with a low technical knowledge threshold to get involved. Created in partnership with the Tor Project, a non-profit devoted allowing people to protect their Internet traffic from analysis, the GPC uses tools that are well-tested, robust, and shown themselves to be capable of accessing banned websites in many different environments.
The GPC works by passing requests to host computers in other, unmonitored locations, which then pass back the requested information to the activist. As the traffic is encrypted, it is not visible to outside parties. It is a peer-to-peer network that is strengthened by the addition of hosts who donate their bandwidth to the cloud. By opening their Internet connection, volunteers increase the size and stability of the GPC, and allow it to aid more activists. The more people in closed societies who have access to the GPC, the more easily information can be spread both into and outside the censored space, and the harder it will be to identify individual users.
Technically-minded individuals can easily access circumvention tools. The GPC endeavours to widen access to these tools, and provide on-the-spot deployment to global hot spots.
How does the Global Proxy Cloud work?
- Users behind the firewall install software on their computers that connects them to the Global Proxy Cloud.
- Instead of passing their information and requests straight to the destination sites over a connection that can be blocked or monitored, they are instead re-routed to the cloud.
- Communications are bounced around many different nodes so they cannot be traced back to their source.
- Computers in the cloud pass on their data to the destination server, and then return the requested page to the user.
Our partners
The Tor NetworkThe Global Proxy Cloud is powered by the Tor network,
a non-profit devoted to allowing people to protect their Internet traffic from analysis.
To find out more about their work, please visit The Tor website.
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