A friend of mine sent me today this link. It is a project developed by two Berliners aimed to help people accessing the Internet from highly monitored/firewalled/secured locations visualize websites that are normally forbidden. Their project and the way they present it is highly humanitarian and works for giving Internet users access to a non-censored Internet by tricking the firewall system by allowing the user to connect to an outside proxy or server. They say that tested their idea in the heart of Beijing accessing “forbidden” websites in plain daylight and from public Internet Cafes.
According to the authors, when accessing an unauthorized website in countries with high Internet censorship a message signaling a network problem will be shown. What the user has to do then is to invoke the pici-server and fill in the same web address that was reported as unreachable. “The pici-server then creates an image of that website and sends this back. To make surfing on that image possible, pici-server analyses the web site and puts links via image maps onto the image where they can be seen on the web site. So one can click in the web browser with the mouse onto the links like on the “true” web page.”
I wonder what the Chinese Virtual Policeforce (see some posts ago) said to this?
For more info check: http://www.picidae.net/.
