At the campaigns by various governments (Ethiopia, China, Zimbabwe etc) to block internet access to sites deemed "unacceptable" ramps up, any and all ways to help whistle-blowers and users locate and access each other are welcome.
Here is one initiative reported on by the New Scientist mag:
http://www.newscientisttech
How to leak a secret and not get caught
By Paul Marks[Excerpts]
Leaking a sensitive government document can mean risking a jail sentence -- but not for much longer if an online service called WikiLeaks <http://www.wikileaks.org/index
.html> goes ahead. WikiLeaks is designed to allow anyone to post documents on the web without fear of being traced. Normally an email or a document posted to a website can be traced back to its source because each data packet carries the IP address of the last server that it passed through. To prevent this, WikiLeaks will exploit an anonymising protocol known as The Onion Router (Tor), which
routes data through a network of servers that use cryptography to hide the path that the packets took.There are however, fears that whistle-blowers might still be at risk. "I would not trust my life or even my liberty to Tor," says Ben Laurie, a London-based computer security expert. In the past, determined cryptographers have breached Tor's security, and though each breach has
led to improvements to Tor there is always a risk others will be discovered.WikiLeaks will provide a forum for the entire global community to examine any document relentlessly for credibility," the site claims.
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