The latest specific application of this idea is NedaNet: http://www.catb.org/esr/nedanet/
Any interest out there? Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/ On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 07:59:50AM -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote: > 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
