sgusers5的部落格

Software program funded by US government that helps internet users get around censorship is rapidly winning friends on the mainlandLantern, a software program funded by the US government that allows internet users to circumvent government censors, is spreading rapidly on the mainland as people seek access to websites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.自存倉“China just cleared 10,000 users,” said Chris Holmes, a software engineer at Brave New World Project, which is developing the application. “Two weeks ago, it was probably 200.”The software allows users in countries with free internet access to donate a share of their bandwidth to users in countries where some websites are blocked, such as China and Iran.Lantern sends a user’s traffic via people separated from him or her by only four degrees. Government snooping could therefore not be ruled out, Holmes said.“Lantern is a tool to provide access – it is not designed to prevent monitoring,” he cautioned.Invitations to download the software were originally shared exclusively via friends and like-minded contacts on Google Chat, a service provided by the world’s most popular search engine provider. Last month explanations on how to ac迷你倉ess the software started to appear on Chinese online forums.Dr Alan Huang Jian, a software engineer in Sydney, provides 30 megabits per second of bandwidth to other users. “I do this to provide access to users in the mainland. I just leave my computer running,” he said.As of yesterday, almost 80 per cent of the software’s 13,000 users were in China. Holmes said the software was financed by US$2.2 million seed funding from the US State Department.Adam Fisk, president of Brave New World Project, said at a US forum in September that he was optimistic about the future of an uncensored internet.“We are now shifting from building Lantern, the software, to building Lantern, the movement,” he said. Fisk said the Lantern software was first put to the test in the Iranian presidential elections in June.For one IT expert in Guangzhou, Lantern is the most intuitive tool for accessing the internet he has come across. Yet concerns persist Beijing might find a way to stop its spread.Wen Yunchao, a New York-based internet activist, said he was worried its increasing popularity could lead Beijing to shut Google Chat. “They might even shut down Gmail, if they figure it out,” he wrote in an e-mail.mini storage