Can I look at the source code ?
The source code will be released by the University of Washington under the Apache 2 license after the trusted tester phase is completed .
This is the important part.
Google announces uProxy
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#62Nice! So I can use uProxy to access the Google Play store to buy a Nexus phone? ("Sorry, not available in your country") Thanks Google :-)
And people in Germany can finally watch Youtube music videos ;-)
I wonder how many of my compatriots actually live with those restrictions and how many find ways to circumvent them.
By blocking so many Youtube videos, GEMA has done a huge service to internet literacy in Germany. It still surprises me that, every now and then, I overhear complete laypeople discuss among themselves the setting up of proxy servers.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
How exactly could they shut it down? Its a client-side browser extension that uses peer-to-peer connections. It doesn't run on any of Google's infrastructure. I'm getting a bit tired of seeing this comment every time Google release a new product. I understand that people think they're being insightful in saying this, but they're really not.
Ok, to rephrase for the pedant: "Google pulls core developers off of uProxy; without leadership, multiple incompatible forks form and quickly die" (Not saying that that will happen, just clarifying what I presume is the grandparent's point)
I'm not a pedant. And the core developers work for the University of Washington and Brave New Software, not Google. [1].
[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/new-free-expressio...
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#64Good timing as nyud.net seems to have stopped working.
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#65So Google helps building a proxy for by passing their own censorship, Bravo Google, Bravo. (I'm being ironic of course)
This is what I get any time I try to download anything from Google Code or Android sdk or even read something hosted on GAE.
http://s24.postimg.org/gr0lto1l1/work107.png
I'm in Cuba but the same should be for Iran and others "bad boys".
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#66> "If someone from a country with limited internet access installs uProxy, they can get a friend from the US to authorize them to surf the open web using their connection. " In effect, they would also be sending all their sensitive, potentially illegal traffic to be read and copied by the american NSA agency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%2... People proxying illegal traffic through the U…
Sad times when we have to choose between being censored or lacking privacy. Where did that talk of the global village take us?
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
And people in Germany can finally watch Youtube music videos ;-)
I wonder how many of my compatriots actually live with those restrictions and how many find ways to circumvent them. By blocking so many Youtube videos, GEMA has done a huge service to internet literacy in Germany. It still surprises me that, every now and then, I overhear complete laypeople discuss among themselves the setting up of proxy servers.
I find myself to be too lazy to circumvent them, even though I know how. I just close the tab and move on. Oftentimes there are better ways to spend my time than thath anyway. But at least among people I know there are few who know what a proxy is and how it helps them in that regard.
(It also should be noted that GEMA isn't alone to blame there; Youtube basically wanted the rights to store and distribute that content for free or close to, which doesn't work well if GEMA wants compensation.)
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#68Why don't they simply run Tor end nodes in each of their server farms all over the world. That would actually help. But that would not make any mainstream news, would it?
Bleh.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder how many of my compatriots actually live with those restrictions and how many find ways to circumvent them. By blocking so many Youtube videos, GEMA has done a huge service to internet literacy in Germany. It still surprises me that, every now and then, I overhear complete laypeople discuss among themselves the setting up of proxy servers.
I find myself to be too lazy to circumvent them, even though I know how. I just close the tab and move on. Oftentimes there are better ways to spend my time than thath anyway. But at least among people I know there are few who know what a proxy is and how it helps them in that regard. (It also should be noted that GEMA isn't alone to blame there; Youtube basically wanted the rights to store and distribute that conten…
(It should also be noted that the GEMA distribution scheme is fundamentally flawed and that it overproportionally compensates well established "big" artists while neglecting young and upcoming artists. But that is another story)
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#70> "If someone from a country with limited internet access installs uProxy, they can get a friend from the US to authorize them to surf the open web using their connection. " In effect, they would also be sending all their sensitive, potentially illegal traffic to be read and copied by the american NSA agency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%2... People proxying illegal traffic through the U…
> I can see CIA looking at how their propaganda are affecting foreign nations by seeing who reads it from where Interestingly, this is the second Google project on HN today that caters to people in oppressive countries. uProxy and recently announced Project Shield [1]. The major targets are Syria and Iran. Incidentally, they're also targets for the US military :) Intel from the enemy territory will certainly be of in…
There's a third project, the Digital Attack Map. All three were announced together yesterday: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-free-expression-t...