reporter from The Economist in Thailand seeks help

[Shava Nerad <shava@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If someone proficient with helping a newbie set up Tor et al on XP to 
get by national firewalls wants to personally assist Peter Collins 
from The Economist set up his machine, please email me, and I'll hook you up?

I hear he has skype, but he doesn't have direct access to 
http://tor.eff.org for downloads, and I don't know what other mirrors 
he might have blocked.

he says:
> Hello, I am The Economist's South-East Asia correspondent, based in 
> Bangkok, and my colleague Ben Sutherland said you might be able to 
> arrange for me to get some information on how to use TOR's network 
> to work around the considerable amount of internet censorship in 
> this part of the world. I don't expect that Thailand's new, military 
> government is going to ease up on blocking sites, so I suspect my 
> need for proxy servers is likely to increase!
>
> I am reasonably proficient in IT matters, so perhaps all I need is 
> an e-mail explaining how to set up my PC (which runs Windows XP) to 
> use the network. Then if I have any problems, maybe I could e-mail 
> for advice. Many thanks, in anticipation, for your help, and I look 
> forward to hearing from you,


Ben Sutherland of the Economist wrote an article on Tor for their 
upcoming "technology quarterly" edition, and when he heard that Peter 
was having ever more problems with the national firewalls in 
Thailand, he asked if I could get Peter a little setup help.

Thanks!


Shava Nerad
Executive Director
http://tor.eff.org/
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/anonymous/
shava@xxxxxxxxxxxxx