On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:51:24 +0000 Matt Pagan <matt@xxxxxxxx> allegedly wrote: > This past week on the Tor Help Desk someone requested assistance > setting up Tor to circumvent the internet censorship done by the > UK government. I wrote this blurb because I wanted the Tor community > to be alerted to this new use case. I pointed to your post so that > Tor Weekly News readers would have a frame of reference for what was > happening in the United Kingdom without revealing the contents of the > actual conversation I had. > Hi Matt No problem. However, whilst we do have the beginnings of very intrusive network censorship in the UK (some ISPs are more pliable than others when leaned on) we do not /yet/ have what you could call a a pan UK firewall on the lines of that seen in more (ahem) repressive regimes. It is interesting that UK users should be approaching the Tor help desk for advice, and "use Tor" is certainly good advice. But you could equally say "change your ISP to one with some balls". UK users should stay away from the majors (BT, Virgin, talk-talk, O2, Sky, EE etc) and use one of the multiple independents. BT in particular has a very bad track record (see "phorm") whilst the likes of AAISP are truly excellent. If enough UK users vote with their wallets, ISPs may be more inclined to grow a pair. Unfortunately, the general UK reaction to the Snowden revelations seem only to prove how apathetic UK users really are. Best Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mick Morgan gpg fingerprint: FC23 3338 F664 5E66 876B 72C0 0A1F E60B 5BAD D312 http://baldric.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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