globeandmail.com : Scaling the firewall of digital censorship

globeandmail.com : Scaling the firewall of digital censorship:

TORONTO — More than fifteen years after the Berlin Wall was shattered with hammers and bulldozers, a Canadian-designed computer program is preparing to break through what activists call the great firewall of China.

The program, in the late stages of development in a University of Toronto office, is designed to help those trapped behind the blocking and filtering systems set up by restrictive governments. If successful, it will equip volunteers in more open countries to help those on the other side of digital barriers, allowing a free flow of information and news into and out of even the most closed societies.

It's a tunnel. It's an on-demand port 443 tunnel. It's not even P2P: people have to arrange beforehand to have the traffic proxy through the endpoint in the 'free' country. Want to see me duplicate this in 60 seconds or less?

This is pathetic and it's also 5-year-old technology. Then again, great PR.