links for 2006-11-28

• Web Tool Said to Offer Way Past the Government Censor - New York Times
  "The program, called psiphon (pronounced “SY-fon”), will be released on Dec. 1 in response to growing Internet censorship that is pushing citizens in restrictive countries to pursue more elaborate and sophisticated programs to gain access to Western n
  (tags: psiphon circumvention internet censorship freespeech)
• Despite a Year of Ire and Angst, Little Has Changed on Wiretaps - New York Times
  "For all the sound and fury in the last year, the National Security Agency’s wiretapping program continues uninterrupted, with no definitive action by either Congress or the courts on what, if anything, to do about it, and little chance of a breakthroug
  (tags: surveillance privacy nsa politics congress u.s.a.)