Further Resources
Bypassing Internet censorship is a big topic, with dozens of tools and services available. There are also lots of things to consider if you want your circumvention activities to be harder to detect or to block in the future, if you want to achieve anonymity in your Internet use, or if you want to help other people circumvent censorship. Here are some recommended resources for further study about related matters. (Some of these resources may be unavailable or blocked in some places.)
Manuals and guides
Circumventing Internet censorship
- Reporters Without Borders, Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents, http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=26187
- The Internet Censorship Wiki, http://en.cship.org/wiki/
Computer security advice for activists
- NGO-in-a-Box, a collection of free portable applications, https://security.ngoinabox.org
- Digital Security and Privacy for Human Rights Defenders, https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/esecman
- Surveillance Self-Defense International, https://www.eff.org/wp/surveillance-self-defense-international
Studies on Internet censorship
- Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain, Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008), ISBN 0-262-54196-3
http://www.opennet.net/accessdenied/ - Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain, Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010), ISBN 0-262-51435-4
http://www.access-controlled.net - Hal Roberts, Ethan Zuckerman, Jillian York, Rob Faris, John Palfrey, 2010 Circumvention Tool Usage Report (Berkman Center for Internet & Society)
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2010/Circumvention_Tool_Usage - More resources on Internet censorship:
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/mediaLaw/cyber_censors.html
Organizations that work on documenting, fighting or circumventing Internet restrictions
- Citizen Lab (http://www.citizenlab.org)
- Committee to Protect Bloggers (http://www.committeetoprotectbloggers.org)
- Committee to Project Journalists (https://www.cpj.org)
- Berkman Center for Internet and Society (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (https://www.eff.org)
- FrontLine (https://www.frontlinedefenders.org)
- Global Internet Freedom Consortium (http://www.internetfreedom.org)
- The Herdict (https://www.herdict.org/web)
- OpenNet Initiative (http://opennet.net)
- Peacefire (http://www.peacefire.org)
- Reporters Sans Frontières/Reporters Without Borders (http://www.rsf.org)
- Sesawe (https://sesawe.net)
- Tactical Tech Collective (https://www.tacticaltech.org)
Open Web proxies and application proxies
- Proxy.org, a list of thousands of open Web Proxies: http://www.proxy.org
- Peacefire, a mailing list which sends out new web proxies:
http://www.peacefire.org/circumventor/, - Application proxies:
Circumvention solutions and service operators
- Access Flickr!: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4286
- Alkasir: https://www.alkasir.com/
- CECID: http://cecid.labyrinthdata.net.au/
- Circumventor CGIProxy: http://peacefire.org/circumventor/
- Codeen: http://codeen.cs.princeton.edu/
- Coral: http://www.coralcdn.org/
- CProxy: http://www.cproxy.com/
- Dynaweb FreeGate: http://www.dit-inc.us/freegate
- FirePhoenix: http://firephoenix.edoors.com/
- FoxyProxy: http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/
- Glype: http://www.glype.com/
- GPass: http://gpass1.com/gpass/
- GProxy: http://gpass1.com/gproxy.php
- Gtunnel: http://gardennetworks.org/products
- Guardster: http://www.guardster.com/
- Hamachi LogMeIn: https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp
- hopster: http://www.hopster.com/
- HotSpotVPN: http://hotspotvpn.com/
- HTTPS Everywhere: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
- httpTunnel: http://www.http-tunnel.com/
- JAP / JonDo: http://www.jondos.de/en
- Megaproxy: http://www.megaproxy.com/
- OpenVPN: http://www.openvpn.net/
- PHProxy: http://sourceforge.net/projects/poxy/
- Picidae: http://www.picidae.net/
- Proxify: http://proxify.com/
- psiphon: http://www.psiphon.ca/
- PublicVPN: http://www.publicvpn.com/
- SabzProxy: http://www.sabzproxy.com/
- Simurgh: https://simurghesabz.net/
- SmartHide: http://www.smarthide.com/
- Tor: https://www.torproject.org/
- TrafficCompressor: http://www.tcompressor.ru/
- UltraReach UltraSurf: http://www.ultrareach.com/
- Your-Freedom: http://www.your-freedom.net/
A list of commercial VPN providers
Socksification software (to make non-proxy aware software work with a SOCKS proxy)
- tsocks: http://tsocks.sourceforge.net/
- WideCap: http://www.widecap.com/
- ProxyCap: http://www.proxycap.com/
- FreeCap: http://www.freecap.ru/eng/
- Proxifier: http://www.proxifier.com/
- SocksCap: http://soft.softoogle.com/ap/sockscap-download-5157.shtml