New Tool To Bypass Net Censorship

[GhostShip]

This doesnt look the sort of tool I would use but for some folks in countries with despotic regimes its going to get heavy usage.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6187486.stm

A tool has been created capable of circumventing government censorship of the web, according to researchers.
The free program has been constructed to let citizens of countries with restricted web access retrieve and display web pages from anywhere.

The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab software, called psiphon, will be released on 1 December
Psiphon works through social networks. A net user in an uncensored country can download the program to their computer, which transforms it into an access point.
They can then give contacts in censored countries a unique web address, login and password, which enables the restricted users to freely browse the web through an encrypted connection to the proxy server.

The Citizen Lab said the system provides strong protection against "electronic eavesdropping" because censors or ISPs can only see that end users are connected to another computer and not view the sites that are being visited.

I,ll hold comment on this one until I have either tested it or heard from someone who has regarding its featured security.

[KM]

erm, how is this different from setting up a proxy server, or a VPN, or any other kind of tunneling system out there?