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Re: [LUG] [OT] Simple peer-to-peer web censorship avoidance

 

Not so sure.

uProxy *is* interesting, it shows some political awareness and willingness to engage by google, and also a degree of irony.

It appears to simplify proxying through friends, nothing more. Nothing that a bunch of plugins don't do already, but perhaps in a friendlier way and if linked to a list/group of people willing to share their connections, great.

But I won't be on that list.

It's unclear whether your friend (the exit node of your proxy) has to approve every site, in which case you've now got a new censor - or whether they act as a dumb tunnel. The risks of abuse to letting even a friend use your internet connection are huge and I doubt I need to spell them out here of all places.  I'd rather my front door stayed intact and not smashed down by the anti-terorist / anti-drug / anti-hacking /  anti-abuse / anti-pedofile police because my IP had been associated with same.

Yes, you might successfully argue that it was somebody else, but not until all your IT equipment had been siezed and analysed for months and in the last of my suggested cases, your life ruined. 

I'll leave being a proxy exit node to organisations with more political will than myself. I don't think Google can act as one given it operates in America and is subject to their laws.


On 9 February 2014 17:03, Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Looks simple and workable.

Google announces uProxy: internet censorship avoidance in a browser extension
http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/21/google-ideas-uproxy/

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