Chinese DNS Flaw Leads Web-Surfers to Anti-Censorship Firm

Much of the Internet was inaccessible to Chinese users for more than an hour yesterday after a domain name system error – believed by some to have been the result of a censorship error – led Web-surfers to a blank page hosted by an American technology company. While users were able to access...

An Interview With Telex's J. Alex Halderman

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of Waterloo have developed a proxy system called Telex that provides a method for users to circumvent state-level censorship of the Web. It uses an architecture that includes a proxy at the ISP level and uses connections to...