Over and over, censorship rears its head in the world, sometimes suddenly, as in Iran right now. Citizens want information but it is blocked. See e.g.
http://reinikainen.co.uk/2009/06/iranelection-cyberwar-guide-for-beginners/ One way the world can help is to provide proxies for services like HTTP (and twitter, an HTTP REST protocol). Here are some instructions emerging right now to help Iran: http://blog.austinheap.com/2009/06/15/how-to-setup-a-proxy-for-iran-citizens/ The Ubuntu way would be to provide a package and a convenient way to configure it for the hero-of-the-day opportunity. Of course such proxies have many risks and downsides, so big warnings, hardening, etc would also be important. Some sort of ability to allow remote configuration tuning might also be appropriate, so that I could get someone else to keep it up to date and turn it off when needed. Sort of a more flexible white-hat botnet I guess. Does anything like that exist now? Anyone want to spring into action with their PPA? Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/ -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
