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Delivers fast and reliable access to the open Internet
FreeBrowser is a free Android browser with built in circumvention that lets you access any website that may be blocked in your location. Once the app has been downloaded, no configuration is required – you can start to access censored and blocked content immediately. FreeBrowser is a free Android app that provides access to an uncensored internet. FreeBrowser is closed sourced.
FreeBrowser • Download at Google Play Store • Download at Github
Delivers fast, reliable and secure access to the open Internet
It can automatically detect whether or not a site is blocked and then accesses the site either through its own servers or through other Lantern users running as access points. Lantern provides fast access to blocked sites but it does NOT provide users with anonymity. Lantern is available for free at high speed for 800MB each month, after the 800MB cap is surpassed, users have the options to upgrade to Lantern Pro, or continue to browse the open internet at a lower speed.
Learn More About Lantern • Request download via e-mail • Download at getlantern.org
Free proxy app that empowers other apps to use the Internet more securely
Orbot is a free proxy app that empowers other apps to use the Internet more securely. Orbot uses Tor to encrypt your Internet traffic and then hides it by bouncing through a series of computers around the world. Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.
Guardian Project’s Tutorial • Download at guardianproject.info
Orfox is a free Android application to browse the Internet anonymously.
Orfox: is a free Android-platform mobile phone application that uses the Tor network so that you can access blocked sites and browse the Internet anonymously in conjunction with Orbot. Orfox will only work properly after installing and configuring Orbot. It evades tracking and censorship by bouncing your encrypted traffic several times through computers around the world, instead of connecting you directly like VPNs and proxies. Orfox requires Orbot app for Android to connect to the Tor network.
Delivers fast and reliable access to the open Internet
Psiphon is a circumvention tool designed to provide you with open access to internet content. Your Psiphon client will automatically learn about new access points to maximize your chances of bypassing censorship. Psiphon does not increase your online privacy, and should not be considered or used as an online security tool. Psiphon currently only works on Windows and Android.
Psiphon User Guide • Request download via e-mail • Download at psiphon.ca
Access the Internet anonymously to protect your privacy
Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.
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In an earlier deep learning article, we talked about how inference workloads—the use of already-trained neural networks to analyze data—can run on fairly cheap hardware, but running the training workload that the neural network “learns” on is orders of magnitude more expensive.
In particular, the more potential inputs you have to an algorithm, the more out of control your scaling problem gets when analyzing its problem space. This is where MACH, a research project authored by Rice University’s Tharun Medini and Anshumali Shrivastava, comes in. MACH is an acronym for Merged Average Classifiers via Hashing, and according to lead researcher Shrivastava, “[its] training times are about 7-10 times faster, and… memory footprints are 2-4 times smaller” than those of previous large-scale deep learning techniques.
In describing the scale of extreme classification problems, Medini refers to online shopping search queries, noting that “there are easily more than 100 million products online.” This is, if anything, conservative—one data company claimed Amazon US alone sold 606 million separate products, with the entire company offering more than three billion products worldwide. Another company reckons the US product count at 353 million. Medini continues, “a neural network that takes search input and predicts from 100 million outputs, or products, will typically end up with about 2,000 parameters per product. So you multiply those, and the final layer of the neural network is 200 billion parameters … [and] I’m talking about a very, very dead simple neural network model.”
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Copyright continues to serve its purpose as a tool for censorship, it seems. This week there was some hubbub over Apple’s highly questionable decision to send a DMCA takedown notice over a tweet by a security researcher who goes by “Siguza,” and who appeared to publish an iPhone encryption key on Twitter:
iPhone11,8 17C5053a sepi 9f974f1788e615700fec73006cc2e6b533b0c6c2b8cf653bdbd347bc1897bdd66b11815f036e94c951250c4dda916c00
— Siguza (@s1guza) December 8, 2019
Twitter took it down upon receipt of the takedown notice, but later put it back after Apple rescinded the takedown — either realizing that the takedown was bogus or futile (or, I guess, both).
You can understand (sorta) why Apple would want to protect the key, but copyright seems like exactly the wrong tool for the job. Of course, that’s often the case, but copyright is such an easy tool to abuse to try to silence speech that it is often the preferred tool of would-be censors. This is just one example. But it does raise questions. Is an encryption key even copyright-eligible? That seems highly unlikely. Copyright only is supposed to apply to the creative elements of a work, and it would be difficult to argue that an encryption key meets the “creative” level necessary. US courts have already decided that phone numbers are not subject to copyright (even made up numbers), so it seems unlikely that an encryption key would pass muster for getting a copyright.
Potentially Apple could have been making a DMCA 1201 “anti-circumvention” argument as well — but even that seems silly, and only highlights the problems of the anti-circumvention provisions of Section 1201 of the DMCA. When a single tweet with a single code is seen as “circumvention” then there’s a big problem — and that problem is the law.
It’s good that Apple backed down on this, though it still highlights the problems of the DMCA takedown process, and how it can be used unfairly for censorship — even if that “censorship” completely backfired this time.
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