Ideally, the web can turn your computer or mobile device into a research library, movie theatre, medical tool, or a means of staying in touch with anyone. It's an open, safe place. Here you can maintain yourself or add new content to yourself.
Ideally, the web can turn your computer or mobile device into a research library, movie theatre, medical tool, or a means of staying in touch with anyone. It's an open, safe place. Here you can maintain yourself or add new content to yourself.
At its worst, the web can be a dark and dangerous place. The Internet can be used by thieves to steal, by corporations to spy, and by governments to oppress.
As the saying goes, the essence of the Internet depends on the behavior of people.
Maybe information should flow freely, but there are many forces trying to curb that flow and punish those who fight back.
Some governments use filtering and blocking to prevent some content from being seen by netizens. Others exploit the openness of the web to monitor and punish individuals for their online behavior.
While online surveillance and censorship technologies continue to improve, so do new tools to protect the privacy and break through censorship on personal computers or mobile devices.
Here we would like to provide some basic guidelines on network circumvention and privacy protection.
What this guide wants to explain is what the challenges we face are, focusing on the "basic". This is not a complete, hard-and-fast rulebook. Instead, we use this general guide to discuss a few key concepts and introduce several tools to help you feel relatively free and safe online.
BE CLEAR
Network bypassing is not incognito: Breaking through the firewall will not make you incognito. The tools we've highlighted will help you break through blocks and shield your identity while you're online. Other tools either let you break through a blockade or hide your identity, but not both.
Every country, like every user, is very different: if you plan to upload a lot of files online, or if you live in a government that actively monitors user behavior, you may want to choose a high-privacy tool. If you just want to access websites blocked by the government, general circumvention tools are enough. Remember that no one tool is perfect, so it's up to you to combine your own privacy protection and circumvention tools.
Sometimes the problem isn't the government: In early 2000, two Chinese dissidents, Wang Xiaoning and Shi Tao were jailed for their online activities. Unbeknownst to most at the time, Yahoo voluntarily handed over the pair's email records to Chinese authorities. Remember, private companies that operate websites and provide Internet services are constantly collecting all kinds of data about you - sometimes for profit, sometimes to enforce government orders.
Good and bad tools: In 2009, during the so-called "Twitter revolution," Iranians took to the streets to protest elections organized through social media and other online tools. Protests continued until the government began to crack down. At this time, software that helps Iranians bypass the government's blockade appeared, "Haystack". However, due to a programming error, Haystack also had the potential to expose users to Iranian authorities. The lesson is: New software isn't necessarily better.
Good Habits: Personal life requires a little discipline, and surfing the web requires some basic habits: Try not to use public wireless networks, as anyone can spy on what you're doing and steal personal information. If you use a browser, use encrypted HTTPS where possible. Don't open emails you don't know or attachments you didn't ask for. Clear browser history and cookies frequently. There's no need to be afraid of using the Internet, but it's always helpful to be a little skeptical.
Nothing is perfect: the only thing that is certain is that the Internet cannot be 100% anonymous and free. If the government wants to control you, it can always find a way.
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