Andrew Chung of the Toronto Star has an excellent article in Saturday’s edition on Psiphon, a software project of the Citizen Lab at the U of T’s Munk Centre for International Studies, that is designed to help users circumvent net censorship. My favourite line from the piece:

The program is needed more than ever, as the number of countries that censor or filter the Internet continues to grow. China alone has reportedly spent hundreds of millions of dollars on its Great Firewall, as it’s known outside the country. Thousands of people stand guard on it.

And three guys have written some code to get around it.