Jailbreaking the Internet For Freedom's Sake

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With so many threats to a free and open Internet, sooner or later, people will need to arm themselves for the fight (http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/jailbreaking-the-internet-freedoms-sake-185143), writes Deep End's Paul Venezia. 'If the baboons (http://boingboing.net/2012/01/28/mpaas-number-two-admits-indu.html) succeed in constraining speech and information flow on the broader Internet, the new Internet will emerge quickly. For an analogy, consider the iPhone and the efforts of a few smart hackers who have allowed anyone to jailbreak an iPhone with only a small downloaded app and a few minutes,' Venezia writes. 'All that scenario would require would be a way to wrap up existing technologies into a nice, easily-installed package available through any number of methods. Picture the harrowing future of rampant Internet take-downs and censorship, and then picture a single installer that runs under Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux that installs tor (https://www.torproject.org/), tools to leverage alternative DNS servers, anonymizing proxies, and even private VPN services. A few clicks of the mouse, and suddenly that machine would be able to access sites "banned" through general means.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/30/1917236/jailbreaking-the-internet-for-freedoms-sake