[guardian-dev] telex" "a new approach to circumventing state-level Internet censorship"

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Wed Aug 17 14:57:09 EDT 2011


Hmm, the webserver idea is interesting.  Instead of relying on only  
ISPs, any website with a functioning, non-blocked HTTPS site could act  
as the telex relay.  That's really a better way to get it spreading so  
that they have a leg to stand on when lobbying ISPs to support it.

.hc

On Aug 17, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Miron wrote:

> Looks very interesting - saw their presentation at USENIX Security.  I
> wonder if a module in Apache would achieve similar things on a smaller
> scale.
>
> I wrote up my USENIX notes here:
>
> http://hyper.to/blog/link/usenix-sec-2011/
>
> On 11-08-16 08:51 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone heard of Telex?  It sounds promising, but it relies on  
>> ISPs
>> implementing the core of it, so probably there needs to be some big
>> time government lobbying to get it to work.
>>
>> https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/anticensorship-internets-infrastructure
>>
>>
>> .hc
>>
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