[backstage] Psiphon

2006-11-27 Thread Mario Menti
Just stumbled upon this, and thought it may be of interest to some folks on the list: http://psiphon.civisec.org According to the front page, psiphon is a human rights software project developed by the Citizen Lab http://www.citizenlab.org/ at the Munk Centre for International Studies that

Re: [backstage] Psiphon

2006-11-27 Thread Richard P Edwards
Wow, I will be watching the next World Cup live on the BBC then. ;-) If this does what I think it will, then the resulting discussion will, again, have consequences for everyone. Personally, I like the idea of sharing and from this side of the Channel, the UK is a state that censors. I

Re: [backstage] Psiphon

2006-11-27 Thread Martin Belam
What happens when setting up a proxy service is as easy as running an application and using one is as easy as typing in a url? It means I finally get to listen to the Ashes here in Austria :-) On 27/11/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it looks like some kind of GPL

Re: [backstage] Psiphon

2006-11-27 Thread Jakob Fix
On 11/27/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens when setting up a proxy service is as easy as running an application and using one is as easy as typing in a url? isn't that what Torpark is all about? http://www.torrify.com/ -- Jakob. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk

RE: [backstage] Psiphon

2006-11-27 Thread Ian Forrester
Alright alright, I walked into the last two comments :) But its certainly an interesting debate, what would (we) the BBC do if Geo IP was so easily passed. And what would you do if it was so easy? I thought this might be amusing for some.

Re: [backstage] News full feeds

2006-11-27 Thread James Cridland
On 11/27/06, Duncan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its part of something else I'm working on but in itself has been useful to me, basically I've written a quick little RSS reparser for the news feeds so that I can read the full text on my PDA on my way into work without having a dataplan.

Re: [backstage] Psiphon

2006-11-27 Thread Richard P Edwards
I think it is pretty laughable :-) I am very happy to pay for quality and expensive programming, but being censored from the same, just because of a legal precedent, is almost the ultimate insult, especially if one does have a UK TV license. In my hallucination, it should take one person

Re: [backstage] News full feeds

2006-11-27 Thread Duncan Barnes
I've nothing against AvantGo as such, its a nice program and all but I've never got along with it very well. No strong reason apart from not liking the way the GUI works, personal preference I guess! Just one of those things! - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe,