The University of Toronto Internet Censorship Explorer (ICE) helps web surfers bypass national censorship filters. ICE works by scanning for open ports in other countries. When it finds one, it conscripts the foreign machine as a proxy server. Port-scanning is legal in the U.S. and Canada but illegal in many other countries and widely criticized as a deceptive path to the unethical end of resource theft. Is it worth it to help defeat net censorship?
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/18/2003 05:51:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
