Google’s uProxy: A Peer-to-Peer Gateway to Internet Freedom

In some parts of the world, where repressive governments control the Internet with unassailable firewalls, netizens don’t see the same web that people in other countries can

Now, Google wants to give people in these countries a tool to circumvent those invisible barriers, and defeat censorship. It’s called uProxy and it is meant to be an easy-to-use peer-to-peer gateway to the open Internet. With uProxy installed, somebody in Iran could use a friend’s to connect with him or her

Though Google announced uProxy on Monday at the Google Ideas Summit in New York, N.Y., the tool isn’t ready to be made public yet, and the Internet giant isn’t comfortable announcing a release date. First, it wants to roll it out for a few “trusted testers” to improve it and make it more secure Read more…

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